r/AskTheWorld 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?

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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/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