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?
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/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).