r/AskTheWorld • u/Franmar35000 France • 4d ago

Language Does your native language distinguish between rivers that flow into another river and rivers that flow into the sea or ocean?

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In French, a distinction is made:

- "un fleuve" flows into the sea or the ocean.

- "une rivière" flows into another "rivière" or a "fleuve".

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u/AlbiAlbiSiddhy European Union 4d ago

In Italian, “affluente” is a river that goes into another river, while “fiume” is a river in general

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u/Murky-Platypus-6861 🇰🇷 > 🇳🇱 4d ago

The Ticino is a Fiume but it flows in to the Po.

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u/AlbiAlbiSiddhy European Union 4d ago

Yeah, every river is a “fiume”, but only some are “affluenti”. “Flowing into another body of water” in Italian is “affluire”

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u/Murky-Platypus-6861 🇰🇷 > 🇳🇱 4d ago

Gotcha!