In the World Atlas of Language Structures, English is listed as [having three genders](http://wals.info/feature/30A#2/25.5/148.2), just like German and Russian. However this seems absurd. It is only present in third-person singular pronouns, and male or female pronouns are almost always only applied to animate creatures according to their biological or self-identified gender (namely humans and occasionally animals, especially pets), apart from rare exceptions for fetishized or anthropomorphized personal possessions, or obsolescent usages involving countries or ships.