We’ve actually got 3 genders, but outside Flanders, people don’t seem to know the distinction anymore. The darn Dutch ruined Dutch!
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Resol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Genders in the Dutch language: common and neuter
gentooer@programming.dev 7 months ago
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Stupid sexy Flanders
Resol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I had no idea this was another thing Flanders did differently than the Netherlands (and pretty much every other “Netherlandophone” area)
gentooer@programming.dev 7 months ago
It’s really handy when you’re learning German as their gender tends to be the same (het/een huis -> das Haus; de/nen hond -> der Hund; de/een kat(te) -> die Katze).
Resol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cool.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 7 months ago
“You Dutch sure are a contentious people”
gentooer@programming.dev 7 months ago
Aaaahh, I’m not Dutch, I live more than 10 km south of them!
uis@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Genders in the Russian language: “actually, we are families”
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In Russia; you don’t gender yourself, Russian genders you.
Resol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
“We don’t need articles, but we have a fuck ton of grammatical genders”
Says the same country that also fears non-binary gender identities, that’s actually kinda ironic
pythonoob@programming.dev 7 months ago
The gender is there but I said it so fast you can’t tell the difference anyway so let’s just call it a short form
-russian
Peter1986C@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Those are grammatical genders, which are a different thing.
Resol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right
Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They really should be called genres or noun cases as outside of Europe they really aren’t tied to gender and can have way more different cases than just two or three.