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• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      interesting. language is interesting.

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      • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And easy. For example “futbolista” is “female football player”, because it ends in “a”, and “futbolista” is “male football player” because… Wait what?

        Another easy example is “mar” (sea). It’s clearly masculine. Except if you’re a poet in love with the sea and you make it female because “no homo” I guess.

        Or my favorite, Mano (hand), witch is strong so obviously male. But if it’s little hand (manita) then it’s not strong so female. Except in some counties were remains male.

        Next week in "WTF is wrong with Spanish: ser and estar (“to be” and “to be, but like different”)

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  • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        logic or rules come from

        That is a “natural” language. Not C++ or Esperanto. No logic. Just bullshit and idiocy.

        is it harder than expected for folks who cannot hear the sound?

        Absolutely trivial for anyone. If the word ends with “a”, it is female. If any consonant – male, “o” – neutral.

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• matelt@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

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