Gendered nouns

>gendered nouns
whose dumbass idea was this

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Whoa, is that much of Europe linguistically problematic?

>literally too developed for his sub-human cavern man anglo brain

>has run the world for hundreds of years while you were using children's heads as soccer balls
>sub-human
wew

>polish genders

>he
>she
>not just hän

Why?

>han
is that from your han chinese roots?

>his language doesn't have 3 genders

triggered

We are shitlord so there is only one.

>doesn't understand the concept of umlaut

ok, Cletus

Why the fuck is there no explanation of the colors?

>Norwegian isn't common/neuter
>Map empasizes minority languages

Doesn't Norwegian have two genders but basically you just ignore it these days and use masculine for everything?

red - two genders (masculine and feminine)
dark blue - three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter)
yellow - two genders (common and neuter)
green - two genders (animate and inanimate)
cyan - no genders

Based Basque

>Doesn't Norwegian have two genders but basically you just ignore it these days and use masculine for everything?
Technicaly we have three genders. Masculine, femenine and neuter.
But you can use masculine for all words that are feminine. Some dialects don't even use femenine gender at all.
So common/neuter gender would be a far more appropriate category.

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Doesn't Spanish have a neuter gender like "el"?

El is masculine dude

montenegro je srbija

WTF I love Hungarian now

What about "lo", then?

Doesn't Spanish have "lo", "la" and "el"?

It really depends on your dialect, a lot of western dialects utilize all genders, but eastern dialects you can often ignore it.
It's a very easy way to tell how fluent someone is, and one of the reason it's hard to achieve complete (grammatical) fluency.

on the other hand

Because English isn't as good as finnish.

based

No case master race

Your language had that before it was creolized by French after 1066.

But we also have gendered nouns, so why did they lose it ?

gramatical cases are cute and formal-sounding.

18 sounds a bit overboard, but having 14/15 without having the full set seems like a waste.

2 or 3 are the same as not having, too.

I don't know... Maybe their language became a pidgin? There's a hypothesis about this:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypothesis

There's "lo", but it's only used as an article for adjectives turned nouns
>lo correcto
The right (thing)
>lo bello
>lo malo
>lo extraño
>etc

so would something like this be gramatically incorrect:
puedo elegir lo que quiero?

That sentence is correct
It means "I can pick what I want"

>grammatical case
is that like a case in court for not writing according to grammar?

>green - two genders (animate and inanimate)
for wat purpose

case is like you modify the word to tell what's happening to that word grammatically.
Like I might be wrong because I don't know much german: if you write "I gave an apple to him" in german you have to put "an apple" and "to him" in two different cases

Ich gab ihm einen Apfel

ihm = him in the dative case
and einen Apfel = an apple in the accusative case(it tells it's the direct object if I'm not mistaken). You have to know that Apfel is masculine (der Apfel/ein Apfel) to know that it's going to be einen in the accusative. It's crazy stuff

That's some serious fuckery.

No case master race!

German only has 4 and is already hard as fuck. Finnish has 15!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_noun_cases

We still have the nominative, oblique (objective, or accusative and dative) and genetive according to grammarians.
ie. I is declined as I, me, mine and he is declined as he, him his, etc.
We just don't inflect nouns or adjectives at all, only pronouns are declined.

Right, but using different pronouns based on case is wicked different from using different articles based on case.

The concept itself is not too hard, the forms in German are just pretty chaotic at times. With a an easier morphology the concept of cases would be dead simple. Once you've understood the basic "syntactic" cases such as nominative, dative, accusative, the other ones are not that much of a problem since they are mostly less abstract.

that's why mongrel needs to be eradicated

What I find hard is that you have to know the gender of all nouns. If the cases were written each with an unique article I think it would be much easier.

They're actually not that hard, you just need to apply it logically.
Does make it look kinda stupid and short sometimes, though.

Are g's in Norwegian silent like Swedish? For example the word for 'and' 'og' is it pronounced 'og'. What are the other silent letters?

i'm considering suicide

A caseless Slavic language? I need to learn it then. Russian and Polish are a fucking nightmare.

Polish has at least five genders if you count the masculine human and masculine animal distinction.

Never saw the point in grammatical gender

Russians can say shit in any order and they'll know who's the subject and who's the object. They don't need articles either.

>no light blue spot in r*mania
TRIGGERED

Norwegian has cases (han/ham, hun/henne and variations) but kids tody are fuckimg stupid and ignore it. Imagine someone sayin and writing "I gave he the book" or "I talked to she", that's literally what they're doing.

non indo-europian languages have a little bit different systems for cases and can't be counted the same way

That's right. Also along with gendered nouns we can state the subjects only once in conversation and use only pronouns further.

>Being so retarded to assimilate such a basic concept
American education

Is it true that "De" has completely disappeared from Norwegian and everyone uses "du" and "dere" only?

t. I learned some bokmål but I have forgotten most of it

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lol kys, why would anyone bother to draw all those minorities, it's not like there's only you in the whole europe
you act like a child

but we do that in english and just say "it", no gender needed

You still have to have coherence between nouns and their articles and adjectives in languages like Spanish and Portuguese

Because they are retarded, my fellow genderneutralspeaking friend

yeah well if there is anything what makes a language difficult to learn we've got it

What's the problem?

>anglo saxon empire
>running the world for hundreds of years

a whole 5 of them actually

Are he/she/it pointless?
Cause that's what you're saying essentially.

That's because of cases. Not gender.

Wtf I misread it lmao
I swear to god I saw "grammatical cases"

Italian has retained kind of a neutral gender, where you decline with the masculine the singular and feminine the plural

English also had gendered nouns, they were phased out due to being retarded.

>these languages with 14 or more cases
fucking hell, and people say icelandic is hard
Even those with seven is bretty bad enough already

Irish has 4 cases

Modern English more like Simple English

6 is ideal desu

>cases are hard
kys urself dumb anglo

lol and english used to have genders and cases too, just like german.
I am not sure about Middle English, but Old English must've hade them

In Finnish he and she are the same word. And in my Finnish dialect he/she/it are the same word.

and that's why you need fucking 9287273 cases mate

Fuck off budget swede

i only use around 11 tho

that's more than me, so I will feel free to just hit any 10-digit number and be correct :)

Yeah but he/she/it help. For example when you say "he did it" it breaks the possible people you are reffering to to about half.