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by ggrrhh_ta 1650 days ago
The most obvious English case would be "beautiful/handsome".

I am handsome.

I am beautiful.

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Those words are differentiated on the object, not the gender of the speaker.
I was trying to give an example similar to obrigado/obrigada in English.
OK, but neither are examples of language being different based on the speaker, they are both based on gender of the object, whether is is contextually yourself, or another.
Handsome being a male adjective is a recent development though. Read some 19th century novels and the women are routinely described as handsome.

I told my girlfriend she was handsome the other day and she objected strenuously.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/355908/why-is-ha...