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English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense (lemmy.world)
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[–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Das Mädchen (girl, neutral)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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