• AccountMaker@slrpnk.net
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    2 years ago

    English is barely gendered. In Slavic languages, as someone said, verbs are conjugated differently based on gender. In Serbian for instance, to say “I saw him”, you would say “Video sam ga” if you were a man, and “Videla sam ga” if you were a woman. In Arabic I think even more things vary based on gender, like “to you” has different forms based on whether “you” are a man or a woman. It might not be specifically that, but I distinctly recall Arabic using gender-based forms for something that Slavic languages don’t.

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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      2 years ago

      Hell, German has three genders. “The” is translated der, die or das depending on the noun