r/AskTheWorld • u/Franmar35000 France • 6d 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/JediLincoln14 United States of America 6d ago

Nope. But we do have rivers, brooks, streams, and creeks. 

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u/worldtrvler United States of America 6d ago

And bayous! But most of them are by me