simpsonsshitpostingbyThe Picard Maneuver Oh no, it just says "The Bart"View original on piefed.world361Comments17Reply
SStrongHorseWeakNeigh replypiefed.social1Hide 1 replyIt's true. Little known fact: all the Nazis spoke Austrian.10Reply
schnurrito replydiscuss.tchncs.deWe native speakers of German tend to just shake our heads at that entire scene when we watch the German dub, no part of it works well. 🫤10Reply
TTheSlad replysh.itjust.works3Hide 3 repliesThats not exactly how it works. For instance, "little girl" gets the neutral article: "das mädchen"-1Reply
EEphera replylemmy.mlSure, but given names generally reflect the gender of the person in the grammatical gender. In other words, you generally use "der" for male given names.9Reply
zzout replyfedia.io1Hide 1 replyThat's because "Mädchen" is a dimunitive, and those are indeed neutral.5Reply
aanomnom replysh.itjust.worksThis is why I stopped taking German classes. Genreing nouns just never clicked with me. I can kinda hear it in French words more intuitively though.2Reply
MMike D piefed.socialIn the San Francisco Bay Area BART is short for Bay Ares Rapid Transit. It is a local train system.4Reply
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No one that speaks German can be evil.
It's true. Little known fact: all the Nazis spoke Austrian.
😠
In case anyone was wondering
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stobart_(logistics_company)
Assuming gender, it should be "der Bart", "die" is female.
So Sideshow Bob was wrong?
We native speakers of German tend to just shake our heads at that entire scene when we watch the German dub, no part of it works well. 🫤
Thats not exactly how it works. For instance, "little girl" gets the neutral article: "das mädchen"
Sure, but given names generally reflect the gender of the person in the grammatical gender. In other words, you generally use "der" for male given names.
That's because "Mädchen" is a dimunitive, and those are indeed neutral.
This is why I stopped taking German classes. Genreing nouns just never clicked with me. I can kinda hear it in French words more intuitively though.
"Nobody who's German could be an evil man!"
In the San Francisco Bay Area BART is short for Bay Ares Rapid Transit. It is a local train system.
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