Comment on English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense

jyte@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• cafeinux@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry to disappoint, a dish washer is “un lave-vaisselle”, which is masculine. A car however is “une voiture”, maybe there’s a joke in there about how manly men love their car more than their gf.

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  • jyte@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Un lave linge, une machine à laver le linge, un lave vaisselle, une machine à laver la vaisselle. It actually all depend on they way you phrase it. Agreed though. It was mostly for the joke.

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    • seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I never heard anybody say la machine à laver la vaisselle, it sounds way too verbose, everyone says le lave vaisselle

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  • Beardedsausag3@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I'm so confused. As a northerner from England with an IQ equal to the ply of toilet paper I use, does every object in French have a feminine or masculine alignment? Or is this some kind of joke privvy to those who don't have a concerning interest in sheep?

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    • amio@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of languages including Germanic and Romance languages have "gendered" nouns, which is a weird term for "these are some arbitrary categories we put nouns into". While that idea of noun classes is often called "gender" and they are also named "gender-y" things like masculine and feminine, the idea doesn't have a lot to do with gender as in identity.

      Compare English irregular verbs - how come you don't say "swimmed"? You "just don't", that particular verb is in a different class. Same thing applies to nouns in certain languages, and affects (among other things) how they're conjugated.

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    • TechLich@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yep. Most Latin languages have gendered nouns. Italian, Spanish, German etc. All have masculine/feminine objects.

      Eg. In Italian a fork is feminine (la forchetta) but a spoon is masculine (il cucchiaio). A table in your living room is a boy (il tavolo) but a table that you’re eating lunch on is a girl (la tavola).

      It’s bizarre.

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      • Hegar@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        German isn't a Latin language, it's in the Germanic branch, along with English, Dutch and others. French, Italian and Spanish are Romance or Latin languages.

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    • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, every noun in French has a gender

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