• teft@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    7 days ago

    Gendered nouns aren’t that bad. The 6 grammatical cases are going to blow their fucking minds.

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      7 days ago

      Last time I’ve counted them, it was 5: Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Akkusative and Ablative. Do you also count Locative and Vocative?

            • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              6 days ago

              That depends on who you ask.

              Some linguists, such as Albert Thumb, argue that the vocative form is not a case but a special form of nouns not belonging to any case, as vocative expressions are not related syntactically to other words in sentences. Pronouns usually lack vocative forms.

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocative_case

              It seems in English speaking countries it is treated like a case, in Germany it isn’t.

              • teft@piefed.social
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                6 days ago

                I’m just shitposting, amigo. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

                The point stands that most english speakers would be confused by grammatical case since english doesn’t have that feature.