Like Jamie Lee Curtis?
Latin and German are examples. English has three gendered pronouns.
Like what? What’s the third gender they refer to?
I gotta research the other German and Latin genders too. Never heard of this.
He, she, it.
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It is neutral. It isn’t a gender.
It’s neuter and yes, it is a gender. Gender has always been a grammatical term and it’s only recently that it has been applied to people as another way of referring to sex (while not referring to sex).
I would guess a fair number of languages have masculine, feminine, and neuter genders.
You can add Greek to that list. (When confronted with the authenticity of the Johannine Comma, the Greek syntax helps to demonstrate support for its existence.)
I can only guess that you never took Latin, which may not be taught much in high school any longer.
And I would agree that neuter is not a gender, but that is its purpose: to note that it is neither masculine or feminine.
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There’s plenty of athletic abilities and skills in women’s sports, my friend.
See below.
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I think it would be easier to explain with a little example: you know how, in Spanish, they have masculine nouns - often ending with an “o” (perro,vehículo, burrito, etc) - and feminine names - often ending with an “a” ( jirafa, mesa, pistola, etc)?
Well, German, for example, has gendered nouns too, but other than masculine and feminine, they also have neuter.
A fork is masculine in Spanish and feminine in German.
A spoon is feminine in Spanish and masculine in German.
A knife is masculine in Spanish and neutral in German.
Hope that helps.
I haven’t had Latin yet, but Mexicans are “Latino”, right? They speak Spanish. Close enough.
No it’s not.
No, but I’m Catholic.
Exactly.
From my cranial wayback machine
Conjugation of verbs:
Ich habe I have
Du hast you have
Er, sie, est habst he, she, it has.
I dunno much else or how it contributes to the conversation though. It has been about 36 years since meine deutch kugelschribe gesplaten.
I stand corrected.
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I had no idea. But I recognized “du hast” immediately. I had an assistant coach when I was in high school, who basically played the following on a loop(at least in my memory) in the weight room:
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Such a good band to lift to.
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Band? Song. I’m not sure anyone on the team ever heard anything from the band other than Du Hast!
The first time I saw Konstantinovs deadlift was a video where Du Hast was playing. I think he pulled 948. So savage.
Found it! Deadlift - Konstantins Konstantinovs 948lb (430kg) @ 275 - YouTube
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Your problem is that you are confusing gender with sex. Grammatical gender has nothing to do with sex. Puerta, door in Spanish, is feminine but no one thinks of a door as being a female, it’s a door. Madchen is German for girl yet the word is neuter.
Gender comes from the Latin word genus, which means type. It has nothing to do with sex. These languages have existed longer than you have been alive. Longer than the language you speak has existed. If they, the people who invented these languages and without whom your language would not exist, used gender (a word they invented) in this way, who are you to call them wrong?
unrelated, but I find these repeating russian names funny “Konstantin, son of Konstantin” instead of Konstantin jr.
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Du hasst, two s’s, means you hate. The English version by Rammstein uses this translation.
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