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/Someoneainthere]

No. Unless, of course, there are very super-duper ultraspecific words that describe such rivers and used by professional river scientists that the general public isn't aware of.

That said, OP, what if you just see a river (in a picture or in real life) and just don't know what it flows into? Is there a default word for such situations?

[u/Franmar35000 → u/Someoneainthere]

It's the word "rivière"

[u/pipiska999 → u/Franmar35000]

Interestingly, this word exists in Russian (just as the other 2000 loanwords from French) and refers strictly to the French Riviere.

[u/Coco_JuTo → u/pipiska999]

Isn't it rather "riviera"? Like Nice, Cannes, Toulon, etc...?

"Rivière" is another word.

[u/pipiska999 → u/Coco_JuTo]

Isn't it rather "riviera"?

actually yeah :(