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• capuccino@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  La nutella (she) y el (he) yogurt.

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• Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nutella – female, Yogurt – male.

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  • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    curious: but why? is there a formula or is it a combination of memorization with relations? ie: “i dont remember the gender of a trash can but I know a cooking pot is male and I cook like trash so a trash can is male?”

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    • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      usually if it ends in “a” it’s feminine versus “o” for masculine, but there are exceptions for that too!

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      • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        interesting. language is interesting.

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    • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Last letter/sound matters. Some – female, some – male, some – neutral (we have 3 grammatical genders in my language)

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      • flandish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “matters” but curious where the logic or rules come from and is it harder than expected for folks who cannot hear the sound?

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  • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah pal it’s le Nutella. Don’t ask me why cause I don’t know. The word ending in ‘a’ isn’t a valid argument because you don’t drink une Fanta do you? Or do you?

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I believe this comment chain is about spanish, not french.

      In Spanish the last letter of the word is right most of the time. We do say “una Fanta”.

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      • matelt@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well it’s on a thread about how ridiculous French is

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• MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is the gender of yogurt under debate in Germany? I am only aware of Nutella and butter. Yogurt was always male.

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  • manucode@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    According to Duden, Joghurt may have any gender. I agree with you though that it should be der Joghurt.

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    • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What is it with the Austrians always stirring up shit?

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