I think I won’t use it ever. I think it’s a stupid expression.

Thanks!

What does glazer mean in this context? (English is my fourth language)

America doesn’t have a government. It’s a continent. Are you possibly referring to the USA?

TIL not believing a genocidal dictatorship is extremist nationalism

This is very interesting! Thanks

I mean, it’s just shorter than saying “women and girls” and “men and boys” if all female and male persons are the subject, not just adults

Man Lower Decks was fucking awsome. Loved it!

I don’t understand how the genders of the lead characters is important in any way. It’s not as if the films were about the genders of the characters.

Firefox has built-in tracking protection.

That’s exactly right.

It’s called крокодил I think

They always do

Isn’t this what management ought to do?

What does a business engineering analyst do?

I mean. 30+ European languages have grammatical gender, just a single one doesn’t. Not difficult to guess which is the unusual one

Prepositive. They don’t have locative anymore. I believe prep. replaced loc. They also had ablative but I think it was combined with accusative. But I’m not sure about that.

Six real cases, plus some remnants of two more that are no longer used.

The same ones as in German, plus prepositive (typical use is “in” something) and instrumental (typical use is “with” something). They also distinguish between living and non-living, for example, accusative male is the same as nominative male if the subject is non-living (things), but if living (humans and animals) then it is the same as genitive male.

They also love to use genitive for everything. Let’s say you’re counting. One is nominative, two through four is genitive singular, five through twenty and zero is genitive plural. Above twenty the last digit determines the case.

Wanna say a date? Ordinal number in genitive according to the rules above for the day, genitive for the month.

Wanna say x amount of something? The something is genitive. If it is countable, it’s genitive plural, if it’s uncountable, it’s genitive singular. You might think, that’s not so bad, until you discover that Russians consider onions, potatoes, carrots etc as uncountable. Of course you can’t say 5 carrots! Impossible to count them. You must say “5 pieces of carrot” in genitive plural. Duh.

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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.

Ha, try the modal verbs! Or Konjunktiv 1. Partizip is also a favourite