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A comment on Raising a Truly Bilingual Child. Parent comment

Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by KayEss on Sunday July 23, 2017 @02:12AM (#14831105)
> Danish, outside of specific persons, has two genders. German and French have three genders

Given that Norwegian and German have three I would expect Danish to also have three. French has two (le + la).

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Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by MattConfluence on Sunday July 23, 2017 @05:34AM (#14831542)
Danish (and Swedish) used to have three grammatical genders, but the feminine and masculine merged at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish
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Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by KayEss on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:36AM (#14835909)
Ah. I'm a norwegian speaker, and didn't know that about the other two languages. Actually the norwegian dialect I speak also features a merged masculine and feminine, but it is non-standard.
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Re:Raising a Truly Bilingual Child by lomnakkus on Sunday July 23, 2017 @08:05AM (#14831879)
Dammit, you're right that French does have two. Not sure why I flubbed that.

Danish indeed has "only" two genders, one too many for my taste.

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