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The rule (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (12 children)

What really fucks with me is akkusativ suffixes

If dein grampa isn't the first and foremost noun in a sentence then it has to be deinen grampa but if it's a feminine word the the rule doesn't matter

Meine Oma Liebt deine Oma.

Mein Opa Liebt deine Oma.

Mein Opa Liebt deinen Opa.

Meine Oma Liebt deinen Opa.

I want to be good at this but that shit makes no sense, Hans. And why the fuck does a Library have a gender?!

EDIT: Liebt not Liebst in this context

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It's a purely grammatical concept.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Grammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that's because it actually just doesn't make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn't. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one

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