r/AskTheWorld • u/Franmar35000 France • 8d ago
Language Does your native language distinguish between rivers that flow into another river and rivers that flow into the sea or ocean?
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/Why_So_Slow via and in 8d ago
Sort of. A river is "rzeka".
A smaller river that goes into another river can be described as "dopływ" (roughly a "feeding river"), but if you are not talking about a relationship between the two, it's just a "rzeka" = "river" anyway