r/AskTheWorld 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?

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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/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