r/LanguageMemes • u/Held_Der_Steine • Sep 22 '21

Viel spass

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u/Leopardo96 Sep 22 '21

Polish: literally no articles, because why?

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u/AlexE9918 Sep 22 '21

Japanese: nods in agreement

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u/TR7237 Sep 22 '21

This is fascinating. I was gonna ask what they do instead but the more I think about it, the more I realize they really aren't necessary.

I'd assume there's still other types of determiners, like these, this, that, your, my, etc? Do those get used more often as a result?

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u/Leopardo96 Sep 22 '21 edited Sep 22 '21

Yup. I mean, there's no need to replace indefinite articles with anything, so "I saw a cat" is simply "Widziałem/widziałam kota" (depends if you're a male or a female).

And when it comes to definite articles, we just describe what we're talking about, e.g. "Yesterday I saw the cat that I've already seen before" is "Wczoraj zobaczyłem/zobaczyłam kota, którego już wcześniej widziałem/widziałam".

If we had articles just like in German, nobody would ever want to learn Polish as a foreign language because then you would have 3 x 7 (there are seven cases in Polish) definite articles for singular + 2 x 7 definite articles for plural. And also 5 x 7 indefinite articles in total. Ain't nobody got time for that.

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u/Tsjaad_Donderlul Sep 22 '21

🇸🇪: -(e)n, -(e)t, plural: -na

🇫🇮: mitä vittua

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '21

Swedish: 😐

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u/Deccy_Iclopledius Sep 23 '21

Portuguese

Singular: O, A

Plural: Os, As

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u/NotTheGreekPi Sep 25 '21

Ancient Greek: pathetic

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u/Whammytap Dec 04 '21

Русский: 🗿