 In one study German and Spanish speakers were asked to describe objects having opposite gender assignment in those two languages.The descriptions they gave differed in a way predicted by grammatical gender.For example, when asked to describe a "key"—a word that is masculine in German and feminine in Spanish—the German speakers were more likely to use words like "hard", "heavy", "jagged", "metal", "serrated" and "useful" whereas Spanish speakers were more likely to say "golden", "intricate", "little", "lovely", "shiny" and "tiny".