• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    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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      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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      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