I had no idea this was another thing Flanders did differently than the Netherlands (and pretty much every other “Netherlandophone” area)
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gentooer@programming.dev 6 months agoWe’ve actually got 3 genders, but outside Flanders, people don’t seem to know the distinction anymore. The darn Dutch ruined Dutch!
Resol@lemmy.world 6 months ago
gentooer@programming.dev 6 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 6 months ago
Cool.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 months ago
“You Dutch sure are a contentious people”
gentooer@programming.dev 6 months ago
Aaaahh, I’m not Dutch, I live more than 10 km south of them!
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Stupid sexy Flanders