In German, a turnip has a gender and a young woman doesn't

German assigns every noun a grammatical gender, and the assignment is often arbitrary rather than logical: 'Madchen' (girl) is neuter, while 'Steckrube' (turnip) is feminine. Mark Twain mocked this in an 1880 essay, noting a tree is male, its buds are female and its leaves are neuter. Even the sun and moon swap genders across languages: 'die Sonne' is feminine and 'der Mond' masculine in German, the reverse of French's 'le soleil' and 'la lune'.

— Mark Twain, The Awful German Language — Appendix D to A Tramp Abroad, 1880