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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago
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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Je suis enchanté

Où est le bibliothèque?

Voilà mon passport

Ah, Gérard Depardieu

Baguette, hon hon hon

Baguette, hon hon hon (hon hon) hon hon hon!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I'm a simple man, I see Flight of the Conchords, I upvote.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Je ne suis pas Francais

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

La Casa vs El hospital. What determines the gender of each? Spelling is great, but this piece boggles the mind.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Suffix -a mostly female, Suffix -al mostly male. There are exceptions but it's a good rule of thumb.

[-] bdonvr 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And then you get - el agua

Feminine. With feminine adjectives. El agua clara. But you have to use "El".

Spanish is still way more consistent than English tho

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I’m sure there’s etymological reasons, but in practice ‘la hospital’ being less pleasant to say (with two vowel sounds directly next to each other) probably contributed. Like how it’s el agua, even though any adjectives for it are feminine: el agua contaminada.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Reminds me of the time when I forgot if the Latin word for bedroom is -a or -um... (it was cubiculum btw, apparently all rooms are gender neutral)

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Fake. If that was me, those baguettes would be gone within 0.3 nanoseconds.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

In Hebrew, the word for "stone" is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for "rock" is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.

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