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Topic: Masculine and Feminine words in languages Posted: 09-Sep-2010 at 02:49 |
Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum, so please be nice to me if I seem ignorant :)
However, I have a question about some languages because I am currently learning Spanish (just beginning). I find it quite easy, especially the masculine and feminine words, I just got to learn the structure of the sentences better. I plan to learn more languages and preferrable languages that have masculine and feminine words. So what are the other languages that have these type of words??
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Posted: 09-Sep-2010 at 10:43 |
All of the "Romance" languages seem to share this seperation! English still has reminants left within it also.
But, I am not an expert on languages, and I will have to leave it to one of our experts to tell you more.
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Posted: 11-Sep-2010 at 21:29 |
Yea I think all the romance languages do too but does French have masculine and feminine?? I don't think they do..
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Posted: 12-Sep-2010 at 06:21 |
"Le" and "la" come to mind!
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Posted: 22-Aug-2011 at 00:09 |
Russian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian have genders too, ...I would speculate that all Slavic languages have them, but I'm not sure, since I use only the ones I mentioned. Ancient Greek, Greek and Latin have genders also. I find the lack of them in English very constraining my expression, since gender diversifies the meanings one can put in one and the same word.
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Posted: 22-Aug-2011 at 17:06 |
Spanish has 'El' and 'Ella. French also differentiates between genders ie: le soleil, la lune, le jour, la
nuit (the sun, moon, night and day). German is somewhat funny because it actually has THREE
genders: masculine, feminine and neuter ie: der Mann (the man), die Frau (the woman) and das
Fussboden (the floor). I think Italian might also have gender separation. Some languages have
gender separation but not necessarily identified by an article that comes before the word. In Arabic
for example, every word is defined by 'Al' but it is the ending which can determine if the word is
masculine or feminine. So for example, in 'Al Mudarriss' المدرس and 'Al Mudarrissa' المدرسة (the teacher)
it is the 'a' ending which designates a female teacher. Some languages like English and Japanese
do not use any specific gender articles.
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Posted: 25-Aug-2011 at 05:23 |
All Indoeuropean languages have the same ancestor. Some of modern laguages has lost the category of gender (like English), some of them developed it even more (like Russian that has 3 genders (+neutral)). But if to look even deeper and to take into account all languages in the world the category of gender is developed there too and it (and some other factors as well) makes scientists think that there was the Common language.
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Posted: 25-Aug-2011 at 10:03 |
I already have spoken that,Universal one!Nobody listen.Inside were included consonant sounds only.Than our ancestors made a little bit of combinatorics:vowels were connected for description of more object,events and abstract meanings.Ape days connected with "human" days.Grammar existed also.Modified we still have used them both.Cases were inside also as in modern Serbo Croatoan language.And signs were universal to all users:they were in front of their eyes!
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