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While gendered nouns are stupid, I at least appreciate Italian because you can just learn the word and get its gender from the end part of the word. In German, however, it’s completely random and you have to learn the gender with the word.

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GargleBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I don’t know what you’re on about. It’s “die Waschmaschine” (washing machine, female), “das Waschmittel” (laundry detergent, neutral) and “der Trockner” (dryer, male).

Pretty self explanatory /s

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- GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I feel violated in 3 languages
  
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- Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And of course this is reformed German to make it easierish
  
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
To be fair most French words are like what you’re describing in Italian. Why does German even have gendered nouns?

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- Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Damit andere Länder nichts verstehen können.
  
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ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Portuguese and Spanish also have that, to a certain degree, but there are some “trap words”, like mapa (map), which is masculine, and a number of words that don’t end with a/o to easily guess.

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- uzay@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  And words that are feminine but are still used with ‘el’ and ‘un’ because they start with a stressed a
  
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