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[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Polish speaker here. We not only have gendered nouns but also verbs and adjectives.

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Spanish speaker here. For as chaotic and wild as English is, I've always appreciated that it has no gendered nouns. Why are chairs female? Makes no sense

[-] pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz 15 points 10 months ago

Maybe you are interested in Finnish. We do not have gendered pronouns either. Everyone is just "hän".

[-] TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

So you're saying Hän is Solo?

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Hän man is Speedy

[-] BambiDiego@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Hold my Duolingo owl, I'm gonna look up Finnish that sounds awesome

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 5 points 10 months ago

Can I keep it after that? I always wanted a pet.

[-] danielbln@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Clearly, because chairs are obviously male (German). Anything else is just silly.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm sorry, French here, but a chair can be both. It depends of the type : Une chaise is obviously feminine while un siège or un fauteuil are definitely masculin. Also Germanic language like English and German mixing these two meaning are silly languages.

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago

Why. Just why? It's just you French and your obsession for...

la silla vs el asiento (Spanish)

Fuck.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 10 months ago

I think we just spotted a cultural fracture btw people of Romance language and the one of Germanic language.

[-] schteph@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, also, mice are obviously female.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 10 months ago

... but rats aren't.

[-] Shave_MyBeever@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson?

[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Somone has to come up with the word chairdude. And some corporate bean counter will invent the word chairhuman to show how diverse they are.

[-] Teon@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago
[-] neutron@thelemmy.club 2 points 10 months ago

Grammatical genders are just that. Grammatical. It's a classification scheme. Latin had neutral nouns and plenty of languages make grammatical differences between animate and inanimate nouns. That current romance languages make a deliberate division between "male" and "female" nouns does not mean they have to correspond to actual features of human beings.

That being said. It's ridiculous that agua is femenine but with the definite article it has to be el agua in singular but las aguas in plural. All the explanations by RAE simply amounts to "we like it this way, lolol".

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

polish speaker too, polish is weird smh

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