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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago

And in French everything has a gender: a table? Definitely a she. A coat hanger? Looks like a he to me. A car? Look at those curves, she it is. That truck though, totally masculine. But the trailer behind it, still a she.

[-] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 days ago

The funny thing with gendered languages is that synonyms can have different genders. So "el pollo" and "la gallina" both mean "chicken", but their grammatical gender differs.

[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

yeah really interesting in this case both come from Latin, and both made their way in the modern languages, one in its masculine form the other in its feminine form.

Pullus (adj.) very small (animal), a young rooster, "pulla" for the female chicken. French : la poule
Gallus (name) rooster, "gallina" for the female chicken. French : le gallinacé (a chicken specimen, member of the species Gallus domestica)