Bengali nouns have NO grammatical GENDER (UNLIKE Hindi/Sanskrit/Urdu, ALL covered in this syllabus's other language subjects, which CLASSIFY nouns as masculine/feminine) — a Bengali ADJECTIVE/verb form REMAINS the SAME regardless of whether the noun it relates to is BIOLOGICALLY male or female.

• ›Recognizing this GENDERLESS noun system as a MAJOR STRUCTURAL distinction SEPARATING Bengali from Hindi/Sanskrit/Urdu (despite ALL being Indo-Aryan LANGUAGES) is the chapter's most frequently tested specific point
• ›This SIGNIFICANTLY simplifies Bengali ADJECTIVE/verb agreement compared to GENDER-marking languages