*un ...dependant upon the male/female context of the phrase. Only the froggies would have a language so stupid that actual words have gender. Why complicate it? Kick her in the **** and be done, that's how proper linguists do it.
Around a quarter of the world's languages split their nouns into different genders - including the 2 most closely related to English (Dutch and German).
As far as I know, though, the French are the only ones to have an Academy that decides whether new words should be accepted as French or designated as masculine or feminine. It's on the Seine - cannae mind the name of it. Edit: and I'm a pure Francophile...
That is what Francophile means, isn't it? Seriously but, I do want to hear "j'aime votre boabie" at some point