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Is there any (political?) pattern there? It's "Wir fahren nach Russland", but "Wir fahren in die Sowjetunion", Wir fahren in den Kongo" but "Wir fahren nach Kam
by nautilius 5y ago
Is there any (political?) pattern there? It's "Wir fahren nach Russland", but "Wir fahren in die Sowjetunion", Wir fahren in den Kongo" but "Wir fahren nach Kamerun".
- ginko 5y agoI don't think there's a reason, tbh. See the list I added to my earlier post. It's all kinds of countries with relatively little in common.
- nautilius 5y agoInteresting list. It really doesn't seem to have any agenda, I think it would be hard to argue that Switzerland or the Netherlands are somehow regarded less than Austria or Belgium.
- thenoblesunfish 5y agoNot as far as I can tell. Maybe you can squint at some of them and come up with a story, but in practice it's just another set of essentially arbitrary things, like the grammatical gender of the names of rivers, to memorize when you learn German.