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this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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Yacht is also feminine in german (instead of the more pleasing das Yacht...) for the same reason as you say:
https://lemmy.ml/post/31227837/19058439
(thanks to @[email protected] and @[email protected] for the explanations)
Das Yacht sounds pleasing to you? I can understand why, given das Schiff, das Boot, etc.*, but I much prefer die Yacht, because of die Macht. Can I ask if you’re a native speaker/like native (for example if you learned German from age three in school) or a nonnative speaker?
I ask because I’m a nonnative German teacher and there are certain geni that bother basically all nonnative speakers (das Lob should clearly be der Lob, for example) but don’t stand out to native speakers and I’m very interested in the language sense that people develop as native vs nonnative speakers.
Yeah I'm non-native. Natur is another one that triggers me, mostly because of the mother nature connotation in english
Well you’re in luck, it’s die Natur!
Edit: that’s also a pretty like-native way to think about articles, so well done!
oh wow, I guess I only hear it referenced in dative and assumed it was masculine