Wait till you hear about Chinese measure words. Check out that table.
Dude, I’m trying to learn German and those goddamn articles are so infuriating. I wonder how difficult it would be for there to be a linguistic reform to make it simpler
you’d have to have case endings for all the nouns instead.
Ōlelo Hawaiʻi: ke / ka
Depending on the first letter of the next word.
I understand all of these languages.
but I also never have sex.
life is full of trade-offs.
Yeah but I have you tagged as manosphere, so that is probably a you problem.
oh and how do you label yourself then?
Hebrew:
the: prefix “ha” ה-
in the: prefix “ba” ב-
to the: prefix “la” ל-
example:
book: ספר sefer
the book: הספר hasefer
in the book: בספר basefer
to the book: לספר lasefer
Czech is even worse than German.
Elaborate.
I thought there wasn’t a word for “the”.Never mind. I didnt realize it was for “the”. You’re correct, there is no “the” in Czech. I saw the German part and i was triggered by Czech cases (7 of them).
Lithuanian: “”
I don’t know about Russian but at least Croatian which is also a Slavic language confuses the hell out of me (and I’m German)
Cases are what kill you in Slavic languages. Articles are a breeze though 😉
Russian has 6 cases. two more than german.
the added ones are instrumental and prepositional.
Technically it’s the other way around - the ones German lost in comparison to Russian were the Instrumental and Prepositional (Locative).
This is from the original 8 (or 9) cases in their ancestor, Proto-Indo-European: Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental, Dative, Ablative, Genitive, Locative, Vocative, (Allative).
confuses the hell out of me (and I’m German)
And rightfully so. I’m also German, I learned Sorbian (slavic minority in Lusatia), and I can very much feel your pain.
Russian doesn’t have definite/indefinite articles?
I think it’s the case with most Slavic languages. My wife’s native tongue is Serbian, and knowinf when and how to use articles was one the hardest parts of learning English for her.
it doesn’t really use article at all.
it’s highly cased, the cases and inflection do all the work.
That doesn’t sound more simple.
The case are quite complicated, yes. But not having articles is way simpler. And I can’t say it ever caused confusion growing up.
English has strict word order and all these stupid helper words, how is that simpler?
By being the devil we know, I guess? 🤷🏻
And they aren’t clear when to use them either, it’s kinda cute when they look at you questioningly if they did correctly after formulating a sentence.
Neither does Polish. I know at least one polaka who confuses the/a(n) 15% of the time.
One of my Polish colleagues, who otherwise speaks pretty perfect English, seems to choose he/she/it at random when putting sentences together. Which is fine for objects, but misleading for people. “I saw a friend yesterday and she said such-and-such” for a male friend, and so on.
Slavic languages notoriously have gender for every object. In russian “friend” have two variants, one for male gender, one for female. Same at least with Ukrainian and Serbian. So when I translate sentence to English (which only have one word for “friend”) I subconsciously use default word + she/he to empathize gender.
It’s annoying habit, cause when I say or refer to “user” for example, I always assume it’s “he/him”.
Guess same for your colleagues.
…which sounds surprising to me, because AFAIK Polish also has separate he/she words (on/ona).
I assume he’s aligning the pronouns to the gender of the noun, rather than the person. “Susie is a great worker, he’s very efficient” kind of stuff.
ETO TOM
TOM MEDIC
thanks duolingo
Тот Том - медик Этот Том - медик Любой Том - медик
We don’t have an equivalent of a/an/the in lithuanian either =w= but we do have definite adjective forms, which is kind of like saying the, so there’s that
lui
English is the/the
