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[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any time I use the wrong definite article my German wife will loudly bark “NEIN!” It’s hot but educational.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 week ago

Hey, is your wife free later? I could really use some German lessons. I mean German less- I mean German- I mean Ger- I-I-I mean light domming.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not sure any of those french phrases ever translate to "the"

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're right, they don't.

The ones beginning with "d" generally translate as "of the," while the "à" ones generally translate as "to the" or "at the."

French has three words that mean "the": "le" (masculine), "la" (feminine), and "les" (plural).

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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 29 points 1 week ago
[–] Strider@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wieso, weshalb, warum? 👏👏

[–] brrt@lemm.ee 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm!

[–] pcrazee@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

In Norwegian (or rest of scandinavistan, as far as I know) we don't even use "the". Suffixes are used instead.

Fish = Fisk
The fish (single) = Fisken
The fish (plural) = Fiskene

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[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Edit: Shit, I mistook the original meme as about grammatical cases instead of articles. I think Finnish has 15 cases. 🤔🫣

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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

él la los las

Ellos ellas

Eso esa

Esos Esas.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 21 points 1 week ago (7 children)

English is schizo, but “the” is actually a very nice simplification, and It hardly impacts the communication.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

… ~~it~~ he hardly impacts …

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm not sure it's kosher to count à la and de la as separate definite articles.

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[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Too many instances of den, not enough of das.

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