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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by skoob on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:39PM (#2909524)
I think the point here was more about how Arabic treats groups of non-human objects as feminin singular. I assume that in Polish you would use a plural form of "green" when talking about multiple books and you would only use the feminine form if "book" is a feminine word.
Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by idlewords on Sunday August 21, 2011 @01:21PM (#2909639)
That's right. Polish adjectives agree in number, gender and case with the nouns they modify.
Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by guard-of-terra on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:47PM (#2909548)
Maybe the underlying idea is that "a group of something is green", and a group is singular and is feminine (at least in Russian ^^)
Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by idlewords on Sunday August 21, 2011 @01:47PM (#2909703)
Nope :-)