A machine in french is feminine. It come from latin machina (μαχανά in Greek) which is feminine (-ina suffix is feminine). Washing is just a verb so it have no influence on the "gender".
A washing machine -> Une machine à laver
Close but wrong. It's because washing is feminine.
All those years of school and lecturing from my teachers only to discover it was all lies.... thank anyway I guess.
Sadly true, Its like an on pourpouse languaje setting
Un baguette, une baguette, le la.
Il y a un truc qui peut vous servir dans cette situation là.
Dites juste deux baguettes.
C'est un peu plus cher mais en tout cas, il vaut la peine et vous aurez deux baguettes à la fin.
A baguette, a baguette, the a.
There is a trick that can help you in this situation.
Just say two baguettes.
It is a little more expensive but in any case, it is worth it and you will have two baguettes at the end.
I don't think the translator worked that well here, but I think it makes it funner lmao
Hey that`s my actual french!
Take a look at the first sentence in english.
It can be both ! You can either call it "un lave-linge" or "une machine à laver".
Yeah, it would be nice if people stopped assuming it gender.
And if you get it wrong you'll be forever banned from blahaj.
Can we not bring these stupid, lazy jokes into Lemmy please?
mistakes = ok
purposefully using the wrong pronoun = not ok
is it that difficult? I don't understand why you're so upset about a gender diverse instance enforcing their rules 🤷♀️
in my Spanish (HS) class if I don't know I just guess based off of the vibes
I've guessed correctly more often than not
I don’t know how German compares to French or Spanish, but in German things can be masculine, feminine, or neutral. What I do—which is partially as a protest, and partially out of laziness—is to assume every non-person noun is neutral.
It works surprisingly well in IT where basically all nouns are neutral, but I probably sound like Kevin from The Office in every other context.
Yeah as an English speaker using neuter seems very natural. Modern English loan words such as from IT are often neuter for that reason.
However in general, words are statistically most likely to be masculine and least likely to be neuter. So if the word ending isn't obviously feminine and it's not a category such as IT that has a common gender you may be better off guessing masculine.
Je suis enchanté
Où est le bibliothèque?
Voilà mon passport
Ah, Gérard Depardieu
Baguette, hon hon hon
Baguette, hon hon hon (hon hon) hon hon hon!
I don't know a single lick of French but somehow my brain knew this is the intro to Foux Da Fafa, a song I haven't listened to in over a decade
I'm a simple man, I see Flight of the Conchords, I upvote.
This is my biggest struggle with German. 3 genders and then plurals, cases etc that can change it again.
In Hebrew, the word for "stone" is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for "rock" is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.
Me who don't want to assume someone's gender: starts speaking Chinese (because "他" is a gender neutral pronoun)
More reasons why Latin based language sucks. We should make Chinese the lingua franca of the world... 😉
The Chinese decided to introduce gendered pronouns to make their language more European so... Uh... 他她它 moment.
German also has a gender neutral pronoun (es) 👍
Fake. If that was me, those baguettes would be gone within 0.3 nanoseconds.
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