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As Someone Learning German, I Know This Pain (lemmy.tf)
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[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago (20 children)

Female in Russian, because the word machine/машина ends with A, and so any machine, from tattoo gun to steam engine is female gendered. I always thought French and German worked in somewhat similar manner?

[–] trafguy@midwest.social 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I didn't learn of any rhyme or reason to it in German when I took classes on it. In fact, in a few cases, the gender changes the meaning of the word. Der See und die See, for example. One means lake and the other means sea/ocean.

[–] ElmarsonTheThird@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's more shenanigans with "umfahren" and "umfahren", where Intonation matters. One means "drive around", the other "run over".

[–] Tvkan@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

Also one is a strong and one is a weak verb, meaning that in certain cases, one will be split apart:

Ich umfahre jemanden: I drive around someone.

Ich fahre jemanden um: I run someone over.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

That's a rather rare occurence. Most often, only the grammar will be incorrect if you use the wrong article.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

OMG, I've been doing my Duolingo lessons and never realised that they had different meanings, I just thought Germans used one word for all bodies of water 😭

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago

"Die See" denotes an ocean, "der See" denotes a lake. You will more often hear "das Meer" instead of "die See" tho.

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