The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 months agoOh no, it just says "The Bart"media.piefed.worldimagemessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down12
arrow-up1354arrow-down1imageOh no, it just says "The Bart"media.piefed.worldThe Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to simpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square17linkfedilink
minus-squareTheSlad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·9 months agoThats not exactly how it works. For instance, “little girl” gets the neutral article: “das mädchen”
minus-squareEphera@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 months agoSure, but given names generally reflect the gender of the person in the grammatical gender. In other words, you generally use “der” for male given names.
minus-squarezout@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agoThat’s because “Mädchen” is a dimunitive, and those are indeed neutral.
minus-squareanomnom@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoThis is why I stopped taking German classes. Genreing nouns just never clicked with me. I can kinda hear it in French words more intuitively though.
Thats not exactly how it works. For instance, “little girl” gets the neutral article: “das mädchen”
Sure, but given names generally reflect the gender of the person in the grammatical gender. In other words, you generally use “der” for male given names.
That’s because “Mädchen” is a dimunitive, and those are indeed neutral.
This is why I stopped taking German classes. Genreing nouns just never clicked with me. I can kinda hear it in French words more intuitively though.