Digitigrade @ git d9bf177
[...] the Dutch have to choose between two articles: 'de' and 'het'. How inconvenient, indeed.
So what is the point of using two different articles? Frankly, there is no point.
On the other hand, we are only dealing with tiny little, one-syllable words. If you mumble them a bit unintelligibly, no one might notice your mistakes.
this article (about articles. an article article if you will) is cracking me up omg
well yeah it is mostly pointless, but!!! there's cases where the article matters
for example:
de fietsen = the bikes
het fietsen = the act of biking :3 (here fietsen is a verb)
but yeah mostly it doesn't matter. at least there's only 2, rather than 3 or even more;;;; (some stupid language nazis insist there's still a difference between masculine and feminine words but no one cares)
yeah honestly it could be a lot worse i dont mind de/het that much i dont think its any worse than french le/la and its definitely better than like. idk fucking latin where theres 3 genders and like 5 "declensions" all of which you just have to learn that shit sucks so bad i hate latin im so glad i didnt choose to study it more lol
yeahhhhh
i think it's even better than in spanish or french 'cause there's a lot less that depends on it
it's only really the articles, words like 'this' (dit / deze) and 'that' (dat / die), and adjective endings that change depending on noun class, whereas in spanish and french there's a lot more (i thinK)