Re: Identifying Gender in German
From: Ruud Harmsen (realemailseesite01_at_rudhar.com)
Date: 06/28/04
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Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:27:38 +0200
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 22:55:18 +0200: Joachim Pense
<spam-collector@pense-online.de>: in sci.lang:
>Wolfgang Schwanke wrote <egkobc.nt.ln@wschwanke.de>:
>
>> -er -> masc (with exceptions, e.g. Mutter fem, Butter fem)
>
>You missed a very striking triple of exceptions, namely "Mutter, Schwester,
>Tochter".
The rule is "er when it means 'someone who does something'". Same as
-or in Latin.
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