Comment on French is such a beautiful language
Forester@pawb.social 4 weeks agoLe petite mort is the little death
It’s a euphemism
Comment on French is such a beautiful language
Forester@pawb.social 4 weeks agoLe petite mort is the little death
It’s a euphemism
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
No, that would be la petite mort.
Forester@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
If you’re using the feminine version of the and little, why are using the masculine version of death?
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
The noun death is always la mort (le petite morte as used by the other poster is just wrong). The dead person can be le mort (masculine) or la morte (feminine). The adjective for dead is mort for masculine and morte for feminine, as in l’arbre mort (the dead tree, masc.) or la fleure morte (the dead flower, fem.).
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Real, but slightly meta question: who decides the gender of new things? Like, who decided if cellphones, or AI, or computers are male or female? What is the gender of a dildo?