It feels like in german that hats are mostly referred to as female (“she is a cutie”) until proven otherwise (maybe) because the word for the species “Katze” is also the word for female cats “Katze” while males have the word “Kater”
Also a lot of cats are “Katzen” and never “Katers”
The German language has three forms of the word “the” - the two genders, and neutral. As a kid living in Germany for a while, this gave me fits - things like doors, tables, windows, etc. are gendered, but I’ll be damned if I could ever figure out any pattern to predict which would get which gender (or neutral).
“Sounds good” in language is usually something you’re used to hearing, so it “sounds good” because you’ve already heard it that way & are used to it. Doesn’t help one lick for those not already deeply immersed in hearing the language routinely.
It feels like in german that hats are mostly referred to as female (“she is a cutie”) until proven otherwise (maybe) because the word for the species “Katze” is also the word for female cats “Katze” while males have the word “Kater”
Also a lot of cats are “Katzen” and never “Katers”
There’s a cat-in-the-hat joke in here somewhere, I’m just not finding it.
Germans gender hats? But I’m masculine and love wearing bunny ears! /s
The German language has three forms of the word “the” - the two genders, and neutral. As a kid living in Germany for a while, this gave me fits - things like doors, tables, windows, etc. are gendered, but I’ll be damned if I could ever figure out any pattern to predict which would get which gender (or neutral).
The pattern is “what souds good”
Die Tür -> sounds good
Das Boot -> souds good
Die Boot -> souds bad
“Sounds good” in language is usually something you’re used to hearing, so it “sounds good” because you’ve already heard it that way & are used to it. Doesn’t help one lick for those not already deeply immersed in hearing the language routinely.
i invested like 2 minutes trying to make it perfect and then *a typo*
This is why Dutch is superior.
Poes.
/jk