[ SECRET POST #2866 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2866 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Language learning rants

[aboutelle]

Regarding your cat question: Because animals have a biological sex there are usually two words to describe them, one for males of the species and one for females. The female cat is die Katze in German, the male cat is der Kater. So if you want to talk about your male cat in German, you can use Kater and male pronouns. The same usually applies to nouns like job titles where the person could be a woman or a man.

Re: Language learning rants

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, that's probably the case in French, too. I think it was in high school Spanish. It's just, from what I can see, there's still a "default" that's masculine... but then, I guess we're likely to do similar in English.

Still feels like I have to rewire my brain a bit to get these Romance languages down. :-/

Re: Language learning rants

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's the same thing in French : un chat is male, une chatte is female (interestingly enough, the latter also means "pussy")

Re: Language learning rants

[th0rns_n_r0ses]

From what I've read, la chatte is pretty much exclusively used to mean pussy. If you have a female cat, you say le chat and then mention that it's female.

Re: Language learning rants

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Wouldn't le chat imply female (as opposed to the person above you saying un chat for male) or does that refer to something else?

Re: Language learning rants

[(Anonymous)]

le is only used for masculine nouns while la is used for feminine. For plural it's les.

Re: Language learning rants

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ah, ok. I was thinking le was feminine for some reason.

Re: Language learning rants

[th0rns_n_r0ses]

Le is the French word for "the" in front of a masculine object/noun.

Un is the French word for "a" or "one" in front of a masculine object/noun.

The feminine equivalents are "la" and "une"

So le chat = the cat, while un chat = a cat

Re: Language learning rants

[raspberryrain]

French nouns for kinds of animal don't usually decline for gender, though. Which I found out after naming a character for what I thought was a female form of such a word.

Re: Language learning rants

[(Anonymous)]

Just chiming in with another example. A Russian cat is a "koshka", which makes many people assume that a cat is female until proven otherwise. A tomcat is actually a "kot".