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 2 years ago
Genders in the Dutch language: common and neuter
gentooer@programming.dev 2 years ago
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Stupid sexy Flanders
Resol@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Cool.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 year ago
“You Dutch sure are a contentious people”
gentooer@programming.dev 1 year ago
Aaaahh, I’m not Dutch, I live more than 10 km south of them!
uis@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Genders in the Russian language: “actually, we are families”
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 years ago
In Russia; you don’t gender yourself, Russian genders you.
Resol@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Those are grammatical genders, which are a different thing.
Resol@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Right
Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 2 years 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.