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Magnus Wibeck <magnus.wibeck.NOSPAM@telia.com> wrote:

> Peter Punk wrote:

> This is a common Scandinavian 'problem', inherited from German(?).

at least from Latin. 

> All nouns have a "gender", German has three (masculin, feminin and neuter),

as Latin (neuter comes from ne-uter, meaning something like "none of
the two")


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Michael