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What really fucks with me is akkusativ suffixes
If dein grampa isn't the first and foremost noun in a sentence then it has to be deinen grampa but if it's a feminine word the the rule doesn't matter
Meine Oma Liebt deine Oma.
Mein Opa Liebt deine Oma.
Mein Opa Liebt deinen Opa.
Meine Oma Liebt deinen Opa.
I want to be good at this but that shit makes no sense, Hans. And why the fuck does a Library have a gender?!
EDIT: Liebt not Liebst in this context
Note that "liebt" should not be capitalized here because it's a verb.
Oh yeah I forgot German uses capitalization for uses other than emphasis or punctuation. In English, they don't change capitalization based on context of subject/verb.
Just a minor correction: instead of "Liebst" it must be "liebt" since it's 3rd person singular:
Thank you for catching that, I appreciate the input.
It's not gender like in humans or in animals. Nobody thinks of the library as a woman, that would be absurd. It's a purely grammatical concept.
Grammatical gender will never make sense to me, and I suspect that's because it actually just doesn't make sense.
I mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn't. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one
Because the subject is in Nominativ and the object is in Akusativ here.
Has anybody so far just considered not doing any of that anymore?
No? Because then the whole langiage just stops functioning. I will just assume your native langiage is english here because pretty much all other european languages have cases.
I don't think it would stop functioning if everything was das and dein, though. Bonus points for making every verb end with e as if it followed ich.
Don't worry, Dativ will come and double fuck you too