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canisalbus · 5 months ago

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In portuguese there are no neutral pronouns at all... Even objects, species and verbs have gender!

Some random examples: Tree, house, lamp, wall, clothing, capybara, walk... all female

Paper, floor, soap, dog, cat, shoe, smell... all male

This confused me a lot as a kid when in translated media the animal characters that were referred to as one gender due to the species was actually another. Some words can be slightly altered to be the opposite gender though.

#see ever since I learned that some languages function like this I've been just a tiniest bit unnerved #I'm sure it works splendidly for you but I just get heartburn and tremors when I try to wrap my head around it #I feel like that's the polar opposite of Finnish where basically nothing has gender #how do you know? how do you know how to determine the gender of any given thing?#are there rules and patterns or is it more about memorization?#is it common to just go and misgender everything around you when you're learning Portuguese as a second language?#answered #anonymous

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