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[โ€“] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

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