Same as Yukikaze. For living creature, maybe. But why gender for things like door or chair ?

And I'm really tempted to write Peace Mark sensei as how Yukikaze calls her

Seika said:

But why gender for things like door or chair ?

It's really not a short study...

Seika

But why gender for things like door or chair ?

...because Germans. Dogs are always masculine (der Hund) and cats are always feminine (die Katze). When it's plural, it's always feminine (die Hunde, die Katzen). And the strip doesn't even mention the neutral gender, like beer (das Bier).

BTW, this is madness.

so does French and Spanish

It's actually more uncommon not to have genders for nouns.

ichbindereine said:

It's actually more uncommon not to have genders for nouns.

Not if you consider the fact that all Asian languages doesn't have them either.

Ryvian said:

so does French and Spanish

...and Portuguese.

azurelorochi said:

Not if you consider the fact that all Asian languages doesn't have them either.

yup, and the verb has no tense nor time. if you don't look at the pronunciation and traditional writing, it might be easy to handle.

Darkagma said:

...and Portuguese.

... and Polish...

yoyoboy said:

yup, and the verb has no tense nor time. if you don't look at the pronunciation and traditional writing, it might be easy to handle.

They have aspects though, which indicate the flow of time. Notably the -tta form of Japanese is the perfective aspect (usually equivalent to the past tense, but not quite), while uninflected verbs are inperfective (usually translated as either the present or future tense, depending on context).

Most entry-level textbooks for Japanese (written in English) tend to call those the "past tense" and the "present and future tense" respectively, but it is technically incorrect ('though quite useful for a beginner learning the language).

Chinese has something similar, but it uses particles instead, e.g. 了(le)(perfective), 着(zhe)(continuous).

Korean has tenses, aspects, and moods, which are all indicated by inflection in verbs. And that's not going into the seven speech levels yet.

(Man, Korean grammar makes Japanese's look like a walk in the park. Or German. Or most languages, really. Inflecting Latin is easier for me. The only one that is comparable is Russian.)

Painiac said:

... and Polish...

...and Arabic...

BTW, are we assuming those language statistics? 'Cause there are multiple unique languages in just about every African country that might share little to no similarities. I doubt their grammar is that complex either :/

Also, from what I can tell, for those who don't understand why languages might have genders for various nouns, it tends to be the word/noun itself that holds the gender rather than the object/item (aside from living things of course). Something about the structure or 'feel' of that word.