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    Nov 20, 2008, 11:25 AM
    What's the point?
    Why do most other languages have masculine and femenine words and English doesn't? And why are they there in the first place?
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    Nov 20, 2008, 11:39 AM
    To differentiate between masculine and feminine of course. German has a third 'gender', the neuter: der, die, das. In these cases the adjective adjusts to match the gender of the noun. Yes, it would be a lot easier if, en français, I didn't need to know that a computer is masculine and a computer mouse is feminine. I do not know the history behind this.

    Here's more reading for you: Grammatical gender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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