On 14.11.2017 18:54, Wols Lists wrote:
It's the same with gender - and that can also be confusing especially
when making a diminutive. "Die Frau" (feminine), "Das Fraulein"
(neuter). "Die Mad", "Das Madchen" likewise.
Actually, the base word is „Die Maid“. Mark Twain has famously and
hilariously roasted the German language, partly for its use of
grammatic gender :-)
Again, here English is very
unusual because words do not have a gender (the objects they refer to
may, but that's different ... :-)
How would that be true? It may seem so, because the articles for all
three genders are the same, but words are referred to by ‘he’, ‘she’,
or ‘it’. In English the sun is male, the moon female (like in most
languages, and unlike in German, where it’s the other way around).
Only yesterday I talked with an American native english speaker about
the grammatic gender of death; she said it could be all three,
depending on circumstances…
Best, Simon
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