• asudox@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    is that like how you have to memorize every single articels (der, die, das) for every word in german?

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      10 months ago

      Exactly, gendered langage. But French has only two genders, no neutral like German. And the washing machine is a Lady, any machine btw :)

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      10 months ago

      But at least pronunciation is mostly consistent.
      In English two words can be written almost exactly the same but sound wildly different.
      Looking at you, words with “ough”