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ar of various
languages throws off some laughs and insights nonlinguists never get a chance to marvel
at.
In German, for example [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a woman doesn’t achieve feminine gender until she gets
married. The word for “girl” (M.dchen) and “miss” (Fr.ulein) are both neuter gender. In
Russian, the past tense of verbs acts like an adjective; it doesn’t shift forms according to
person and number as verbs normally do, but shift according to gender and number as
adjectives do. In Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish the definite article (“the”) follows the
noun and is attached to it. Therefore, “a field” in Norwegian is en mark. “The field [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],”,
however, is marken. Romanian and Albanian, completely unrelated to the Scandinavian
languages, do the same thing.
In Finnish, the word for “not” is a verb. (At least it behaves like a verb.) Finnish,
alone in all the world, has an inflecting negative. In every other language in which verbs
conjugate, the form of the verb changes according to person and number [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], whether the
verb is positive or negative. Thus, in Spanish the verb meaning “to want” goes yo quiero,
tu quieres, el quiere. If you wish to say “I don’t want”, you keep the verb forms the same
and throw the word for “not”, no, in

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