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#441
Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
Where they have different versions of "the" depending on whether you're talking about male, female, or neutral objects .... oh, and, objects have gender that is not necessarily "neutral", so you can't just assume that because it's not alive it uses the neutral form of things.
Yeah, just one of the multiple reasons why after 10 years of studying German I still can't get along very well with it..

I think we might be straying a bit off-topic by the way.