• @[email protected]
    9•4 hours ago

    So as far as I can tell the rule for deciding if a french word is feminine is “does it end with an e”.

    There are exceptions and French people claim that’s not how it works, but it is an incredibly useful heuristic

    • @[email protected]
      3•3 hours ago

      I feel that ‘gender’ is probably a misleading term for the languages that have ‘grammatical gender’, it rarely has anything to do with genitalia. ‘Noun class’, where adjectives have to decline to agree with the class would fit better in most cases.

      English essentially does not have decline adjectives, except for historical outliers like blond/e where no-one much cares if you don’t bother, and uses his / hers / its / erc using a very predictable rule. So no ‘grammatical gender’.

  • @[email protected]
    35•11 hours ago

    In spanish “pene” is masculine. However “una pene” (fem) is a much more interesting concept. Even more if we throw in some diminutives. “una penesita”

    I actually jokingly call dicks “pussos” with my girlfriend in spanish.

    • Canadian_Cabinet
      18•10 hours ago

      Una pene makes no sense. Also it would technically be penecillo, with a c. However, we do use polla which is akin to dick/cock and is feminine. We also say coño which means vagina and that is masculine

      • Sneezycat
        3•4 hours ago

        Cimbrel, carajo, picha, polla, tranca, rabo… Tiene nombres mil el miembro viril! (Yeah idk why we have so many words for penis)