German is not that easy, either, though.
Das/Der/Die is a constant source of frustration. Its never easy to remember.
Das/Der/Die is a constant source of frustration. Its never easy to remember.
CZ: ten nůž (masc.) - DE: das Messer (neutr.) - EN: knife
CZ: ten svět (masc.) - DE: die Welt (fem.) - EN: world
CZ: ta žába (fem.) - DE: der Frosch (masc.) - EN: frog
Also, personified Death and rivers seem to be masculine-coded in Germanic languages, and feminine-coded in Slavic ones.
Тази вечер
even though in the greeting "good evening", the old masculine form remains:
добър вечер
Bulgarian in general seems to be the Chad of the Slavic language family :)
DE:
der Band ... volume (as in "the second volume in a collection of books")
die Band ... group (as in "the Beatles are a group")
das Band ... ribbon
In Dutch: De and het, where de is for masculine and feminine, and het for ... I don't even know. And I'm a native Dutch speaker.
Edit: German also has cases: Nominative, accusative, dative and genitive, like Greek.
Latin had a 5th one.
That's what Dutch did. As spoken in most of the Netherlands, Dutch "eliminated" grammatical gender... which is to say it now has two grammatical genders: "both" ("de") and "neither" ("het").