Those Germans, they have a word for everything!

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• finickydesert@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s better: der Büstenhalter

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  • juergen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    (“The bust holder”)

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    • finickydesert@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hope I got it correct

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Der? Gendered nouns in other languages confuse my English mind.

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    • lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The association between gender and the noun is in large part (albeit not completely) arbitrary. In this case, since Halter is a “masculine” noun, the compound Büstenhalter is “masculine” too. So it gets the “masculine” article der.

      If it helps, instead of looking at German genders as “masculine vs. feminine vs. neuter”, look at them as “der gender vs. die gender vs. das gender”.

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    • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Of course they do. There is no actual rule to it. You just have to know. Often words ending in “er” are male, but not all of them. It’s one of the reasons German is so difficult. Just avoid it. English is easy and efficient.

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    • weker01@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s confusing? I am confused by your confusion. This is all confusing.

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• FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  FYI: It’s not actually. It’s BH.

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  • RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, BoppenHrumfloppen.

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• Captain_Baka@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I kinda wish this would be true because that word looks and sounds funny. But I’m german and I know it’s not the actual word. If it would have said that this is the dutch or danish word I would bei more convinced to believe that this could be the actual word.

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  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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• No_Money_Just_Change@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It is “breast-holder”

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• southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apparently nobody has heard the story of otto titsling

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