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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    Those aren’t really accents. In many Slavic languages, the declination of verbs is gender-specific in the past tense and conditionals. The form is -l for masculine and -la for feminine. You can pronounce it -lǝ (emphasize the schwa that comes at the end of -l) to be vague about it, use the -lo neutrum (dehumanizing), or, to also sound sassy, one of the plural forms -li (default), -ly (all female or neutral, pronounced the same as -li) or -la (all neutral). Yeah, no good gender-neutral options yet.

    • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      That’s just grammatical gender, something like half of all languages has some form of it.