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by hawkice
4276 days ago
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This was precisely the point I came here to make. Saying the third person singular pronoun is gendered in Mandarin isn't quite right (the 3 characters all sound the same) -- it's gendered in Chinese characters, which is why (I assume) they didn't break things out by dialect. Also, given how much wackiness is in French, I would assume something similar to be true -- that the male/female shows up when you write it but not when you speak it. Can we get a confirmation on that? |
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There is a neutral pronoun, but it mostly is used in the same way we'd use the first person plural in English. Or to express the same thing as the 'One' in 'One can ___'.
French also has an inflection on the verbs, nouns and adjectives that are grammatical gender markers.