Am Montag, 19. Juli 2004 21:45 schrieb Philip Newton:
On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 21:43:51 +0200, Leonard Vertighel
Not as I understand it; as soon as you need a past tense, you're out of
luck, since you're either going to use -l or -la depending on your
gender (in Russian; the endings are slightly different in other Slavic
languages, e.g. I believe Serbian has -o and -la).
Right, I should have looked this up before in my Czech grammar (it's too many
years ago since I tried to learn Czech, and unfortunately I didn't get very
far). So I guess we can say:
*In some (all?) Germanic languages you normally don't need to disclose your
gender.
*In some (all?) Romance languages you can avoid disclosing your gender, though
you'd have to be rather carful.
*In some (all?) Slavic languages you need to disclose your gender at least in
order to say something about yourself in the past tense.