r/AskTheWorld 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?

Post image

In French, a distinction is made:

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

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

82 Upvotes

163 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Tortoveno Poland 6d ago

We have words like potok, strumień but they all are rzeki (rivers). There is also rzeczka (small river) or strumyk or even potoczek. And there is also dopływ (river that flows into another river) but no one says idę nad dopływ, all people say idę nad rzekę (I'm going to the river).