>he >she Why do some languages do this?

Does your language not use words?

>>72399267
Because they're barbarian indo-european languages.

pencils are shaped like dicks, and therefore masculine. pretty simple pham.

>>72399292
Finns don't use he or she, they use the word HÄN, which is gender neutral

>>72401990
so progressive, oh wait i thought it was sweden. WTF fingolia?

>>72402003
t. Has pronouns such as xhe, xe and zhe

>>72401990
Poor language nothing to be proud of

>>72399267
You think he and she is strange?
Why does your language have 15 damn cases?
That shit is confusing and unnecessary, English does fine without any

>>72401990
>>72402003
it's loaned from swedish where they use han/hon

ancient finns didn't fucking bother remembering which is what so they just called everybody hän

>>72399267
Most Indo-European languages do this because they also mark genders in nouns. Gendered nouns are convenient for adjective tracking, double reference and word derivation.

English does this only as a leftover. It used to be a gendered language, but now the distinction changed, it used to be like German in this regard. (Three genders)

>>72401562
Genders are kinda random for most inanimate stuff.

>>72402564
>That shit is confusing and unnecessary, English does fine without any
Say that in the face of I.

>>72402564
>Why does your language have 15 damn cases?
>That shit is confusing and unnecessary, >English does fine without any
But English has prepositions that do the same but "outside" of the targeted word.

Do inanimate objects have gender in your language? Are country names feminine or masculine? In Russian most of countries except China, Iran and few more are feminine.

>>72402616
I mean Finnish sort of doesn't have prepositions. We have conjunctions though.

>>72399267
>girl is neuter in german

>>72402564
because its more efficient to have just few root words and conjugate them adding different attributes to the base word and change it into whole different words than learning libraries of words of different origin like english does.

>>72402653
No, but we do have masculine beauty (komea) and feminine beauty (kaunis).

However you can call an inanimate object whichever, even a woman's breasts:
>komeat bösät

>>72402662
Woman is female tho

>>72402681
Better translated as handsome and beautiful, pretty much the same thing except I don't think you'd call a woman's breasts handsome.

>>72402715
handsome means also plentiful in english so i think you could say those are some handsome breasts there.

>inferior indoeuropeans chimping out

we were progressive before you could even think of such a word, bow down to your conquerors

>>72402577
wait that's actually wrong

>From Proto-Finnic *hän
>False cognate with Swedish han.

>>72402662
Any noun with -chen (diminutive) is neuter in German.

>>72402653
Most country names are feminine, but oxytone country names (Canadá, Panamá, Irã) and the likes are masculine.
Moçambique and Portugal are weird cases, they're neutral-ish? And Estados Unidos [USA] is both masculine and plural.

>>72402840
We borrowed hän from you in our verion it's called hen.

Stupid pekka

I bet there's some Finnish tumblrinas that are so influenced by American SJWs that xhey object to being called hän

obsessed with gender(papirus, democratia) = poetic
obsessed with sex(he, she...) = retarded

we do neither.

>>72403407
>obsessed with gender(papirus, democratia) = poetic
what

>>72402653
>Do inanimate objects have gender in your language?
They do. It depends on how you count them actually. Uncountable nouns also have genders but none of them can be neutral.
In fact, we have feminine (house, book, bottle), masculine (wall, punch, boulder) or neutral (river, fence, axe) - neutral means one is masculine and more than one are feminine.
Most countries are feminine as well.

>>72403407
Japanese = retarded

>>72403492
Let the man speak

>>72403407
So it's ok for a girl to call herself boku or me call her whatever-kun?
Or are you that polish guy with the jap proxy?

>>72403583
I am

I'm just wondering what papyrus and democracy have got to do with gender and why is it poetic

>no gender pronouns
Kys plebs

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>>72402653
>christianity = feminine
>islam = masculine
really makes you think...

>not having masculine, feminine and neuter
Utterly pleb-tier.

>>72402653
In Czech, countries can be masculine (like the -stan countries), neuter (Czech, Slovakia, Germany) or feminine (Italy, France, England).

>>72403728
Why is Typкмeниcтaн/Turkmenistan not masculine despite ending with a consonant?

>>72403891
Because Typкмeния/Turkmenija.
(female words can end with a soft or shibilant consonant though)