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First very simple example that comes to mind, the sentence "I'm happy": in English, the speaker's gender is not obvious. In French, you will say "Je suis conte
by Fradow 5y ago
First very simple example that comes to mind, the sentence "I'm happy": in English, the speaker's gender is not obvious.
In French, you will say "Je suis content" if you are male, and "Je suis contente" if you are female.
The trailing "e" change the pronunciation: in the male variant, the trailing "t" is silent, while it's not in the female variant because of that "e".
- SilasX 5y agoEnglish kind of has traces of this in eg “I’m an actress/waitress/stewardess” (vs actor/waiter/steward) although gendered role-terms like those are less common and tend to get phased out in favor of gender-neutral ones (“server” replacing waiter/tress and “flight attendant” replacing steward/ess). And I wouldn’t consider it incorrect or out of place for a woman to say “I’m an actor”.
- pvaldes 5y agoSame in Spanish