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zephorah@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In Spanish, most masculine verbs are “LONERS”, and end with one of those letters.

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• Onionguy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And then you get - el agua

    Feminine. With feminine adjectives. El agua clara

    Spanish is still way more consistent than English tho

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    • Onionguy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah like I said mostly. Same with el problema, etc. There’s probably a nice ethymological explanation to memorize them better but in the end you have to deal with irregularities in any language except maybe Esperanto or some other artificial ones.

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• Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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