En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
> This has got to break the record for error density. The 1st (-a)
> declension
> is almost all feminines; the 2nd (-o) declension is divided between
> masculines and neuters;
Reading that mail, I was working under the assumption that English people
counted the declensions differently from us French people. That's why I didn't
cringe on that one ;))) .
the 3rd declension indeed contains nouns of
> all
> genders; the 4th (-u) declension also contains nouns of all genders,
> though masculines predominate;
Do they really? I was under the impression that feminine nouns predominated
there... Or is it my equalising tendencies, seen that masculine dominates
strongly the second and third declension?
the 5th declension is very small and
> contains almost entirely feminines.
>
Yep.
Christophe.
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