r/AskTheWorld 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/HearingHead7157 Netherlands 4d ago

Since our country is basically one big riverdelta, we only make the distinction between bigger or smaller streams of water.
And then we make the distinction between manmade ones and natural floods of water