#English is easy show windows

Linguists call this вЂњagreementвЂќ or вЂњconcord,вЂќ and it is very common, especially in European languages-but nonetheless quite tricky for English speakers, simply because they donвЂ™t really have it (any more).Д®ssentially, there are two different forms of вЂњyouвЂќ depending on power dynamics, and every time you strike up a conversation, you need to choose the right pronoun, or risk causing offense. Once you have memorized the fact that house is feminine and book is masculine, the next step is to make sure that all the adjectives, articles ( the/a), demonstratives ( this/that), and possessors ( my/his) describing these words have matching gender and also indicate the difference between singular (one) or plural (more than one) ma belle maison (my beautiful house) but mon beau livre (my handsome book). Other languages, notably Swahili and related languages, have many more genders-up to 18. The gender-neutral singular pronoun they has been much discussed of late, but many languages lack the equivalent of he/she, having only they (among them Turkish and Finnish).

#English is easy show windows

There are still some remnants of it in English, though: the pronouns he/she/it are masculine, feminine, and neuter, but he/she are now only used to talk about living things, not tables and windows (as they were in older stages of English).Д¬ontrary to what you might think, languages donвЂ™t actually need gender. Interestingly, English used to have grammatical gender too, but this was basically lost in ChaucerвЂ™s time. In Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, gender is usually indicated by word endings (-o and -a), making it easier to learn, but sound changes in French have made genders rather opaque, and a real challenge for second language learners. There is no real logic to this-milk is masculine in French, Italian, and Portuguese, but feminine in Spanish and German, but it still tastes and looks the same.