- Dołączono
- 16 Sie 2018
The ‘o’ suffix in Spanish can be used as gender neutral. It is just that when something is gender neutral, it defers to the masculine rather than the feminine ending.The funny thing about Spanish is that the Spanish language is more male oriented than female oriented like many of the other romance languages out there.
So time for a little Spanish language lesson with me.
To give you an example of why Spanish is more male orientated then here is one. Take the words 'Ellos' and 'Ellas' which both of these words simply mean 'They' but 'Ellos' is the masculine version of 'They' and 'Ellas' is the feminine version of 'They'.
So with this in mind, imagine a group of women. To refer to the said group of women you would use the feminine version of 'They' and you would say something like 'Ellas son un groupo.' ('They are a group.) since the group are made up of all women only.
However, if you add a man to this said group of women then the wording will change to 'Ellos' instead of 'Ellas' because the masculine words will always be dominate over the feminine words whenever a person in question who is male is present. So if you add at least one man to this group of women then they will now all be refereed to as 'Ellos' even though the group in question is mostly made up of women so you would then say 'Ellos son un groupo.' ('They are a group.') in this case.
That's the one thing that Spanish has over English is that there is no such thing as 'gender neutral' words and so you won't see dumb shit like those new lefty social activist words being used in the Spanish language since the language in itself is more favorable towards being masculine than it is towards being feminine in all.
So there is your language lesson for the day. I hope this was helpful.