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What are the pronouns they/them in your language? (discuss.online)

submitted 1 day ago by IHatePepRallies@discuss.online to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm learning Russian and I don't know what it is for that, but in German I've seen "xier", "sier", and "dey". I might use "dey/dem".

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm not in all possible discourse-related spaces about Russian, but the surface level fight went around not pronouns, but nouns. Almost everything in Russian is gendered or inherits gender from the subject of the sentence, unlike English. So the questions liberals (non pejorative there) asked were about feminization of usually masculine-coded words describing most professions.

They/them would be они/их, and although I want to put it here and there and do so, it doesn't seem to work as smooth due to completely different gendering system.