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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not even for people? I dont know why that sounds so strange but it does.

[–] guy@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

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)

[–] lbfgs@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

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."