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[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 34 points 4 months ago

While gendered nouns are stupid, I at least appreciate Italian because you can just learn the word and get its gender from the end part of the word. In German, however, it's completely random and you have to learn the gender with the word.

[-] GargleBlaster@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

I don't know what you're on about. It's "die Waschmaschine" (washing machine, female), "das Waschmittel" (laundry detergent, neutral) and "der Trockner" (dryer, male).

Pretty self explanatory /s

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

I feel violated in 3 languages

[-] cygon@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

And after going on Die Toilette (female toilet), you use Das Spulbecken (neutral washbasin) and stand in front of Der Spiegel (male mirror).

Despite accepting this all as perfectly normal, conservatives still manage to make a stink when someone writes or speaks in a way that addresses two different genders :-S

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

And then there's also the fabolous gender swap in the kitchen:

You walk into Die Küche(female kitchen) and after that you come out of Der Küche(male kitchen).

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 4 months ago

TIL In french, we have un amour, single form masculin that turn feminin in the plural form.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago
[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 5 points 4 months ago

That's because of the so called "Dimitutiv". What it does is basically, it say that the object in queue is smaller version of it. Some examples:

Der Baum - Das Bäumchen

Der Junge - Das Jüngchen

It's always neutral. The original word is "Die Magd" and the Dimitutiv is Mädchen.

[-] Speiser0@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

Also, das Mädchen is just a cute/small Made (maggot).

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. I have no clue why it's the #standard word" but yes.

[-] herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I know that, but that doesn't do much to un-confuse beginner speakers.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

And of course this is reformed German to make it easierish

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

It's exactly the same in french, I wonder how closely the genders of random things align between the two languages.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

To be fair most French words are like what you're describing in Italian. Why does German even have gendered nouns?

[-] Kayday@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

Damit andere Länder nichts verstehen können.

[-] danielbln@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago
[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Well that clears that up, thanks!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

Portuguese and Spanish also have that, to a certain degree, but there are some "trap words", like mapa (map), which is masculine, and a number of words that don't end with a/o to easily guess.

[-] uzay@infosec.pub 3 points 4 months ago

And words that are feminine but are still used with 'el' and 'un' because they start with a stressed a

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