Re: USAGE: What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 29, 2006, 16:02 |
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Hallo!
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:09:26 +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Well, the subject line says it all:
> What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?
> Sure _paidía_ is feminine in Greek, but
> one can never be sure. It might even be
> neuter plural! ;-)
_Wikipedia_ is feminine, probably because _Enzyklopädie_ is also feminine,
and because it ends in -a, and most words in -a are feminine. _Wiki_, though,
is neuter.
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