> I have no idea why so many other languages force you to stick a gender on something without any genitals. Btw, Swedish has a nice version of this, the mascul

> I have no idea why so many other languages force you to stick a gender on something without any genitals. Btw, Swedish has a nice version of this, the masculine and feminine genders have merged together into the common gender, and then the other is the neutral gender. For example: en katt (a cat, common) ett hus (a house, neutral) You are still burdened by having to memorize the gender for each noun, but at least you are spared from having to think the words as masculine or feminine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar#Nouns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_grammar#Nouns