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minus-squareiByteABit [he/him]@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up13·10 months agoI recently started very casually learning Chinese, this absolutely blew my mind along with the fact that verbs don’t have a billion different forms depending on time and the object of the sentence like all the other languages I know.
minus-squaremcc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·10 months agoSo there is 他/她, but only in writing so you can be very disrespectful and your conversation partner is none the wiser.
I recently started very casually learning Chinese, this absolutely blew my mind along with the fact that verbs don’t have a billion different forms depending on time and the object of the sentence like all the other languages I know.
So there is 他/她, but only in writing so you can be very disrespectful and your conversation partner is none the wiser.