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minus-squareTRock@feddit.dklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoEnglish is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoEnglish doesn’t even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.
minus-squareMommy Longarms@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 months agoI mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.
minus-squareDigitalAudio@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoNot German. But it’s usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive. Mein Freundin = Partner Eine Freundin = Friend English is usually the same though. My girlfriend = Partner One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend
English is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner
English doesn’t even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.
I mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.
Not German. But it’s usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive.
Mein Freundin = Partner
Eine Freundin = Friend
English is usually the same though.
My girlfriend = Partner
One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend