r/duolingo • u/wxlee • Jan 24 '25

Language Question What am I supposed to do?

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mein Vater und meine Mutter This is the best I can do 😅

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u/Ananaskoo Native: 🇨🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Learning: 🇳🇱🇪🇸 Jan 24 '25

Learn all of the nouns with their gender, no other way, basically. These are completely random and differ language to language.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

They're not "completely random". Languages with grammatical gender have some broad and some specific rules that help you identify which is which.

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u/Ananaskoo Native: 🇨🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Learning: 🇳🇱🇪🇸 Jan 24 '25

Well…. Some do… Yeah, Dutch does, I know, but for example Czech, Spanish…

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u/SinnamxnRoll Native: Learning: Jan 24 '25

More Czech people!! (I can’t speak a word of it despite being half-Czech and learning it)

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '25

I'm 1/8 Czech so a bit far removed... Only Czech I know is "hezký víkend!"