Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building?
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI wasn’t going to get into how we form possessives; it will confuse and scare them.
Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building?
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI wasn’t going to get into how we form possessives; it will confuse and scare them.
DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
It works the same in English, though, just with the suffix ‘-ish’ (and a number of other suffixes) instead of Dutch ‘-se’. You could literally translate ‘Goudse kaas’ as ‘Goudish cheese’, Gouda just never gets the ‘-ish’ suffix (or any suffix at all, really) in English.