Исследователи попросили немцев и испанцев (носителей языка) назвать несколько прилагательных для объектов вроде ключа. Немцы, в языке которых это слово мужского рода, назвали такие прилагательные как "твёрдый", "тяжёлый", "зубчатый", "металлический". Испанцы же, для которых "ключ" женского рода ответили иначе: "золотой", "маленький", "красивый", "блестящий".
на английском чуток по-больше”The researchers asked German and Spanish native speakers to think of adjectives to describe a range of objects, such as a key. The German speakers, for whom the word “key” is masculine, gave adjectives such as “hard,” “heavy,” “jagged,” and “metal,” whereas the Spanish speakers, for whom “key” is feminine, gave responses like : “golden,” “little,” ”lovely” and “shiny.” This result suggests that native speakers of languages that have gendered nouns remember the different categorization for each by attending to differing characteristics, depending on whether the noun is “male” or ”female.” It is plausible that second-language learners could learn to perceive various nouns in a similar way to help them remember the correct gender.”отсюда