ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 4 months agoThose Germans, they have a word for everything!slrpnk.netimagemessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1203
arrow-up1203imageThose Germans, they have a word for everything!slrpnk.netByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Memes@sopuli.xyz · 4 months agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squarerockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoI like calling them “noun classes”
minus-squareLvxferre@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-24 months agoThat works too. Perhaps even better than calling them “genders”, as if this sort of system was exclusively related to social gender. (Often a grammatical gender / noun class system has nothing to do with social gender; cue to Bantu languages.)
I like calling them “noun classes”
That works too. Perhaps even better than calling them “genders”, as if this sort of system was exclusively related to social gender. (Often a grammatical gender / noun class system has nothing to do with social gender; cue to Bantu languages.)