Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 12:23:16 +0200 From: Wojciech Setlak <wsetlaknopsamspringer.com.pl> Subject: Re: Got my Saab -- sort of
Nel Frikandel wrote: > > Out of > all languages I have any knowledge of at all, English seem to be the > only one that is sex-less :-))) Not entirely - it has the ship (she) and some other noun I forgot. > But, how do you determine thatf the Lada is feminine and the VW is > masculine? By the character of the car, or the last letter of the > brand name? The last letter. Generally in Polish if it ends with an "a", it's feminine (exceptions are words of foreighn origin, like "idiota" - masculine). > Ad3: Note the :-) too. Oops. You answered to the post I canceled. -- Regards, Wojciech Setlak