• Annoyed_🦀
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    106 days ago

    (Chinese language does not really use gendered pronouns)

    他(male) and 她(female), no?

    And also 它 for animal/object

    Or at least that’s what i learn when i’m in school, not sure if anything change.

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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      5 days ago

      If you write 他 to refer to a woman on a test essay, you’d still get marked correct.

      Writing 她 to refer to a man would be incorrect.

      Basically

      他 = He OR She

      她 = She

      它 = It (refer to objects and non-human animals)

      他 is what gets used all the time to refer to both genders. 她 is rarely used, unless maybe in an English class to teach the difference between the English pronouns He and She.

      Also, they are all pronounced the same: (tā)

    • @[email protected]
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      6 days ago

      You are correct. 他 for he, and 她 for she. However since they all sound the same, they’re only distinguished in writing.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        95 days ago

        It’s not that they sound the same; they are the same and are just written differently. It was all 他 until in the 20th (I think) century they created 她 and 它 and made 他 for males only to make the language more European.