Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, May 24, 2003, 17:37 |
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Swedish is fortunate to have an epicene pronoun _den_.
Historically the masculine accusative of the demonstrative,
but how many know or care about that?
/ B.Philip Jonsson B^)
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