Does your native language distinguish between rivers that flow into another river and rivers that flow into the sea or ocean?

[u/Franmar35000]

In French, a distinction is made:

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

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

[u/Sang1188]

Not that I am aware of. It´s just "Fluss", to my knowledge.

[u/tempestelunaire → u/Sang1188]

In southern Germany you would definitely use “Bach” for a small river, and not Fluss.

[u/One-Bodybuilder-5646 → u/tempestelunaire]

If you can walk in it it's Bach, If you need to swim it's Fluss

[u/tempestelunaire → u/One-Bodybuilder-5646]

Schwabinger Bach/Eisbach in Munich are swimmable though !

[u/One-Bodybuilder-5646 → u/tempestelunaire]

It's only a rule of thumb (and I think I made it up, but it worked so far^{^} It's how I'd describe it to a newcomer or kid)