2023-01-23 15:43 UTC
@till @keithreeder@newsie.social @Kay@mastodon.nz I think it’s a lot of the weird and duplicate spellings that trip people up, tenses are fairly regular etc. I’ve always thought giving a gender to objects is so unnecessary, it’s so much easier to have just the one word as in English!
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@till@nerdica.net 2023-01-23 15:59
@weaniejeanie53@mas.to @Kay@mastodon.nz @keithreeder@newsie.social Yes, in Russian an German, there are a lot of words, where you just have to know the gender. So you constantly mix them up, especially, if you already know one of them and start to learn the other. Because they often assign different genders. It's far easier, if either every object is per definition neutral (as in English) or if the word itself contains the gender. E.g. in Latin, everything that ends in -us is male, -a is female, -um is neutral. There are some additional endings, but they are relatively unambiguous, too.