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Dutch in colloquial language, masculine and feminine are merged to the common gender Danish and Swedish are both common/neuter Norwegian depends on the dialec
by mannerheim 6y ago
Dutch in colloquial language, masculine and feminine are merged to the common gender
Danish and Swedish are both common/neuter
Norwegian depends on the dialect. The dialects with more Danish influence may drop the feminine (or they may use masculine adjectives/determiners with feminine nouns), but certain words will still more commonly be used with feminine determiners, even if it might be OK to use masculine. E.g., 'boka mi' ('my book') and 'kona mi' ('my wife') is more idiomatic than 'boken min' and 'konen min' (I'm not a native speaker, so I can't be entirely certain about this).
Icelandic has m/f/n, as does Faroese I believe.
- lordnacho 6y agoBornholmish retains three genders, in contrast to standard Danish.
- ochrist 6y agoIt's a bit more complicated than that: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_dialekter https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_dialekter Look at the map here: https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_dialekter#/media/Fil:Denmark-gender.png https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_dialekter#/media/Fil:De...