It’s a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I’m curious if it’s hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.

  • @Tkpro
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    11 month ago

    What? She in Chinese is 她. It might not be used often but it definitely is gendered…

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      1 month ago

      Nope. 她 isn’t really used. 他 is the pronoun, even if its refering to women.

      Like if you wrote 他 to refer to a woman in an essay on a test, it’d get marked as correct.

      Edit: Although, on the internet, people commonly type “TA” instead of “他”.

      Edit 2: So clarification

      他 refers to both men and women

      她 can only be used to refer to women, and this is rarely used, except maybe in english class to teach about the english pronouns

      它 refers to non humans, like animals or objects

      all 3 are pronounce the same exact way (tā)

      • Cruxus
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        01 month ago

        hmm, idk man, over here 他 is only for men, and 她 is only for women.

        though in speaking we just use 佢 because canto