• SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Girl = neutral (das Mädchen)

    No idea why lol.

    Mädchen is a diminutive, and all diminutives are grammatically neutral.

    It’s the same in Dutch btw, and my girlfriend who is learning Dutch is frequently abusing this as a cheat code: whenever she doesn’t know the gender of a word, she’ll just use the diminutive and it will automatically be neutral.