#i don't think rock is masculine in german is it? stein? is stein a rock or is that more like mountain? | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tepli-mravenci · 9 months

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I find it funny how English speaking people use he/she pronouns for objects/animals as a way of showing endearment when there's multiple languages - including mine - that just gender objects and animal species in general

Table? Guy shaped.

Shoe? Girl shaped.

Door? They/them that bitch.

Cat? Girl until proven otherwise.

Dog? Boy until proven otherwise.

Pig? Let's not even bother, it's an it/its.

And that's just Czech. German has completely different genders for most of these things. And that goes for every other heavily gendered language. It's a curse really :)

#language #languages #langblr #czech #slavic #german #der die das babey #dem die den and so on #and then die is der sometimes #forgot when #I don't understand how the hell the gendering in MY language works how am i supposed to understand it in another language #and then there's the english speakers going 'look at that rock look at him' and you're like yeah that sure is der Rock #(disclaimer der Rock is actually 'skirt' in german...yes it's masculine...german said men in skirts rock ig)#i don't think rock is masculine in german is it? stein? is stein a rock or is that more like mountain?#a rock IS masculine in czech #looked it up and yes der Stein is masculine and it does mean rock #i would've sworn it was das Stein but then again I wasn't the best student

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