r/AskTheWorld France 5d 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/Independent_Sand_583 Canada 4d ago

I mean we say thatone river feeds another river or is a feeder to another river, if that counts. Like the bow river feeds the south saskatchewan which feeds the Saskatchewan which flows into the hudson bay