It might amuse you to hear that our two French exchange students started to groan in desperation when my dormmates and I couldn't agree on the gender of quite a few German nouns (e.g. 'Joghurt', 'Filter', 'Spezi', 'Radio'...). "How should we know what's right," they whimpered, "if you don't know that yourselves?"
And divergent genders of common nouns appear in the dialect of the Upper Palatinate as well. It's 'der Butter', too, and 'der Kartoffel'.
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Date: 2008-02-25 10:58 am (UTC)And divergent genders of common nouns appear in the dialect of the Upper Palatinate as well. It's 'der Butter', too, and 'der Kartoffel'.