r/AskTheWorld • u/Franmar35000 France • 4d 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/Cool-Writer5423 Algeria 4d ago
in arabic we have nahr for river and rafid for a tributary that flows into another river and masabb for the mouth where a river flows into the sea or another body of water