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Is it true Dutch has lost its genders?
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Saim
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28 April 2012 at 6:00pm | IP Logged

I think you've confused the merger of the masculine and feminine genders (the merger of "hij" and "zij" for non-living things) that Cabaire described with an imagined merger of "de" and "het" (or a common and neuter merger).

Afrikaans has merged them both into "die" (and also "zijn" and "haar" into "se"), but that's had its own standard for decades so it's hardly "Dutch" anymore.

Edited by Saim on 28 April 2012 at 6:02pm
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