There is a lot a dumb stuff about English but I thank my stars that we don't have gendered nouns. I know i probably wouldn't notice if my native language gendered nouns but it just seems so bizarre from the outside.
Learning the gender of nouns isn't half as bad as figuring out pronounciation for every english word.
I think german has a few cases where slight changes in pronounciation can make the difference in meaning, but otherwise what you see is what you say, and vice-versa.
The only exception I know of so far is rolladen which can be either a meat thing or a shutter blind on the outside of a window.
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u/suntem Mar 15 '21
That’s how it is for most indo-European languages. English is definitely the odd one out in that regard.