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

• Maultasche@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Luckily, for washing machine it’s the same (female) but with others like sun, moon, or table we’re not so lucky. And German having three genders for words and french only two often makes things more complicated.

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  • sverit@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems like both?

    le lave-linge / la machine à laver

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    die Waschmaschine

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    • sparky@lemmy.federate.cc ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Idk we can do this too, der Waschautomat, less common of course but…

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      • BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Is there a rule to find the gender in German or do you just have to remember it for each word?

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also German is quite systematic in its naming of things (surprise surprise), so specific names have the same gender as the more ‘generic’ root word for the thing

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