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To: alexander_busek

I had no idea the German language has gendered nouns!
I’m self teaching myself Portuguese and running headlong into the whole gendered noun wall. It really takes some getting used to for an English speaker!
And I will never again wonder why foreigners find it impossible to properly construct a sentence in English. Some of my attempts in Portuguese would probably make a native speaker wonder what drugs I was on. #:/ )


99 posted on 01/17/2022 8:46:36 AM PST by oldvirginian (So if a cow doesn’t produce milk, is it a milk dud or an udder failure?)
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To: oldvirginian

German has THREE noun genders. Masculine, feminine AND neuter.

They have four cases and they alter adjectives as well as articles for case AND gender.

German requires some serious intelligence to speak.


105 posted on 01/17/2022 9:07:53 AM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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