This is my biggest struggle with German. 3 genders and then plurals, cases etc that can change it again.
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Je ne suis pas Francais
La Casa vs El hospital. What determines the gender of each? Spelling is great, but this piece boggles the mind.
Suffix -a mostly female, Suffix -al mostly male. There are exceptions but it's a good rule of thumb.
And then you get - el agua
Feminine. With feminine adjectives. El agua clara. But you have to use "El".
Spanish is still way more consistent than English tho
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I’m sure there’s etymological reasons, but in practice ‘la hospital’ being less pleasant to say (with two vowel sounds directly next to each other) probably contributed. Like how it’s el agua, even though any adjectives for it are feminine: el agua contaminada.
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In Hebrew, the word for "stone" is male-sounding while grammatically female, and the word for "rock" is female-sounding while grammatically male, you know, for simplicity.
Fake. If that was me, those baguettes would be gone within 0.3 nanoseconds.