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minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·12 days agoWhat’s the refrigerator’s gender?
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·12 days agoDer - male Because it’s derived from "der Schrank*
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoI know he gets around, but you you didn’t have to call him a schrank.
minus-squarenaeap@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·12 days agoOk, I know, this is a joke, but I’m currently to dumb Calling someone “einen Schrank” in German usually means, that he is build like a tank But I’m really not good at making connections with different languages, so please help me out o:-)
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoYou and me, we’re both not anglophone enough to get it.
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoIt shounds like skank in english.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoThe one in your kitchen is masculine. Others may be feminine.
minus-squareAlcoholicorn@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoSo refrigerators can actually change their gender and swap pronouns?
minus-squarewieson@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 days agoWell, if he decides to lie down he becomes a Kühltruhe cooler chest, and therefore feminine. But if she grows up into a walk-in cooler she becomes masculine again as a Kühlraum or begehbarer Kühlschrank.
minus-squareSkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoAnd if he decides to get a job and work in retail, he becomes feminine again with die Kühltheke
What’s the refrigerator’s gender?
Der - male
Because it’s derived from "der Schrank*
I know he gets around, but you you didn’t have to call him a schrank.
Ok, I know, this is a joke, but I’m currently to dumb
Calling someone “einen Schrank” in German usually means, that he is build like a tank
But I’m really not good at making connections with different languages, so please help me out o:-)
You and me, we’re both not anglophone enough to get it.
It shounds like skank in english.
Hop in the skanktank
The one in your kitchen is masculine. Others may be feminine.
So refrigerators can actually change their gender and swap pronouns?
Well, if he decides to lie down he becomes a Kühltruhe cooler chest, and therefore feminine.
But if she grows up into a walk-in cooler she becomes masculine again as a Kühlraum or begehbarer Kühlschrank.
And if he decides to get a job and work in retail, he becomes feminine again with die Kühltheke