Animacy is a grammatical category, usually of nouns, which influences the form a verb takes when it's associated with that noun. Usually, animacy has to do with how alive or how sentient the referent of a noun is. In general, personal pronouns have the highest animacy, the first-person being the highest among them. Other humans follow them, and animals, plants, natural forces such as winds, concrete things, and abstract things follow in this order; however, according to the spiritual beliefs of… (More on Animacy)