• pijon@lemdro.id
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    1 year ago

    Really depends on your language. In french lamps are females for example.

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      1 year ago

      Lamps aren’t female in French, they’re feminine but this is purely grammatical and doesn’t imply any social gender. It’s just part of the word - see “fleuve” and “rivière”, both words meaning river, one masculine one feminine.