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In French, it's 'le pénis,' but nobody says that. 'Dick,' is feminine (la bite.)
Also, 'vagina' is masculine, but 'pussy' is feminine, because if you were to say 'le chat' it would mean a cat, but by feminising the word, it becomes 'la chatte,' meaning pussy.
As someone who grew up Anglophone, I actually find gendered languages much more precise. On the other hand, in order to make yourself understood one must have a rich vocabulary, because the definitions of words are often more narrow than in English.
And don't even get me started on phrasal verbs... English is messy.
Just never ask a group of Germans what the singular article of Nutella is.
Put some yogurt on that!
You'd better back down before this blows up or i break down
back up - actual phrase
break up - actual phrase
Why no blow down?
Pure poetry.
I don't get the weirdness of phrasal verbs? It's a basic staple of every Indoeuropean language to generate verbs by tacking on prepositions. Ok, it's a bit weird to use prepositions after the word, but that's just standard Germanic separable verbs that are a bit regulized. So what?
They're just so ubiquitous in English. In my experience, people coming from the Romance languages have a very hard time with them, because most of the actions they describe are a single verb in their mother tongues. Imagine having to remember what two words mean, but then also having to remember that when you use the two words together, they form a distinct, sometimes even unrelated, meaning.
And there's thousands.