To: FroggyTheGremlim
Try German, where EVERY noun has a gender. Things like a young girl is neuter, the sun is female and the moon is male. Meanwhile the confused French and Spaniards think the sun is male and the moon is female. Silly Frenchies.
The young girl being neuter in German is the one rule that made sense: all diminutives are neuter. Mãdchen and Frãulein are therefore neuter. In three years of high school German that is the one rule I never saw an exception for.
15 posted on
04/30/2021 8:23:42 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
To: KarlInOhio
Why did my phone use ã instead if ä? My fingers are too fat.
16 posted on
04/30/2021 8:24:46 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
To: KarlInOhio
"The young girl being neuter in German is the one rule that made sense: all diminutives are neuter. Mãdchen and Frãulein are therefore neuter."
And the German word for woman or wife, Weib (not a diminutive) is also neuter for some reason I can't figure. My father told me German-noun gender has little to do with sexual gender.
39 posted on
04/30/2021 12:06:41 PM PDT by
Hiddigeigei
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