Re: USAGE: What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 28, 2006, 22:27 |
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Quoting Kalle Bergman <seppu_kong@...>:
> > What gender is _Wikipedia_ in German?
>
> Okay, not an answer to your question, and tangential
> to the subject, but... what gender is "wikipedia" in
> swedish? "En wikipedia", "ett wikipedia"... it's
> neither, right, because "wikipedia" is a proper name?
As for my idiolect, "Wikipedia" is a proper name, but _wiki_ [vi:kI] is an
n-gender noun. Eg _Wikipedia är den mest kända och använda wikin, men inte den
enda_.
(Tho "n-gender" may be a bad term to use when speaking of my 'lect, since I have
a masculine of sorts; _den enda kvinnan_, _den enda grejen_, but _den ende
mannen_.)
Andreas
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