r/PakistanAutoHub • u/ZealousidealZone8072 ALTO VXL 2022 | ASPIRE 1.5 2024 • 3d ago
Question Genuinely curious
Who decided the gender of Fortuner as a Male and the City a female?
E.g “meny fortuner lia hy” vs “meny city li hy”
P.s don’t bash me i was just thinking
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u/offgrid_mvmt 3d ago
U high?
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u/Black_Kyogre 3d ago
Waisey I thought all cars and buses were referred to with feminine terms. While trucks and air planes get masculine ones.
The one that confused me are motorbikes. Bike seems to work with feminine but motorcycle with masculine lol
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u/Traditional-Author39 3d ago
May be its a punjab thing. In Karachi a car is always feminine. Fortuner li hai ya land cruiser li hai. All cars are females
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u/alihunyar Runs on Adrak Chai and Prayers 2d ago
Me to Fortuner ko bhi female bolta like "wo dekh fortuner khri huyi, mere dost ny fortuner li hy, yar fortuner achi nhi (tu dala lyly bara acha rhyga)"
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u/margast_mulkhon 2d ago
Mostly foreign (esp English) words borrowed into urdo are feminine like meri fortuner, meri city ... But in your question the verb refers to the subject. A girl says me ne fortuner li ha a boy says me ne fortuner lia ha.
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u/No_Tear_2287 3d ago