• lbfgs@programming.dev
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        2 days ago

        There is only one third person singular pronoun (“O”) used for people (regardless of gender) and objects alike.

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          Huh once again, hungarian is very similar to turkish. We have “ő” for that. No aninimity or gender distinction. Tho we do have this, that and a third one which i guess translates to yonder? But yeah in some constructions you can specify aninimity with them.

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          Also the word for “they” is “onlar” which is just “o” with the prular suffix “lar” attached, that’s like using “its” to mean “them.”

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          Yeah in common spoken language we call everything “it”, except sometimes pets are “he/she”, because people are signaling they’re valued as persons are

          Edit// we only have two third person pronouns, se (it) and hän (he/she)