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Czech has essentially four grammatical genders: In addition to the masculine, feminine and neuter, there is also masculine inanimate which shares some character
by dhosek 6y ago
Czech has essentially four grammatical genders: In addition to the masculine, feminine and neuter, there is also masculine inanimate which shares some characteristics with the neuter such as having identical forms for the nominative and accusative cases.
But Slavic languages are very much a different part of the Indo-European family with most of them having bucked the trend of dropping declension of nouns and adjectives (Bulgarian has largely lost its declensions).
- umanwizard 6y agoIcelandic also retains a complex system of noun declensions.
- gregopet 6y agoSlovenian & a couple of other Slavic languages even still have the dual besides plural and singular :)
- dhosek 6y agoCzech takes it a bit further and changes declensions for plurals greater than 4 (it actually just drops some cases and uses the genitive plural form instead—I forget the details). I suspect this is an odd variant of the dual rule from some proto-Slavic language.