• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    What really fucks with me is akkusativ suffixes

    If dein grampa isn’t the first and foremost noun in a sentence then it has to be deinen grampa but if it’s a feminine word the the rule doesn’t matter

    Meine Oma Liebt deine Oma.

    Mein Opa Liebt deine Oma.

    Mein Opa Liebt deinen Opa.

    Meine Oma Liebt deinen Opa.

    I want to be good at this but that shit makes no sense, Hans. And why the fuck does a Library have a gender?!

    EDIT: Liebt not Liebst in this context

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        Oh yeah I forgot German uses capitalization for uses other than emphasis or punctuation. In English, they don’t change capitalization based on context of subject/verb.

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      Just a minor correction: instead of “Liebst” it must be “liebt” since it’s 3rd person singular:

      • ich liebe
      • du liebst
      • er/sie/es liebt
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      It’s not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It’s a purely grammatical concept.

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        Grammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that’s because it actually just doesn’t make sense.

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          I mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn’t. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one

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          No? Because then the whole langiage just stops functioning. I will just assume your native langiage is english here because pretty much all other european languages have cases.

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            I don’t think it would stop functioning if everything was das and dein, though. Bonus points for making every verb end with e as if it followed ich.