Just to confirm for people who don’t know it’s not the actual physical object that has a gender but the word
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Jhex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Washing Machines are girls for some reason… sme as dryers
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 10 months ago
madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t machine female? La machine
scutiger@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“La machine à laver,” or “la laveuse”
But not all machines are X machine, some have specific names that could be either gender.
finickydesert@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
I think it’s because of gender roles back in the day
GrosPapatouf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In France, “lave-linge” and “machine à laver” are equally common. The first is masculine and the second feminine. For dryers, “sèche-linge” is definitely most common, and is masculine. Of course this might be very different in Quebec or other french-speaking regions.