A Curious Inconsistency
Don’t ask me why my odd little mind ended up considering this, but the fact remains that in Italian the word ‘giorno’ - day, is a ‘male’ word, whereas the word for week - ’settimana’ is female.
I’m sorry, but I don’t understand why this is the case.
Italian is one of those languages, that, unlike English, defines everything as being either male or female, from a grammatical point of view. Sometimes you can guess that a word will be either female or male, other times, as in the day/week thing, there appears to be no logical explanation or consistency.
Oh well, English has its notoriously devious spelling that bears little relation to pronunciation and Italian likes to catch you out with its odd male and female nouns.
No language is perfect. And before anyone points this out, I know that German nouns defy any reasonable explanation, especially with regard to the neuter gender that is assigned to some words.
Curious, very curious.
Sayings and phrases
Being infinitely curious, as I am, I find this site eternally interesting: Sayings and Phrases. You might too.
Learning Italian?
If you want something Italian to read, check out Blog Italia which lists a whole host of blogs on many different subjects. You should find Blog from Italy there too, but it will not help you get a handle on the Italian language!
Hop over there and see just how vibrant the Italian blogging community is.
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