zaangalewa
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Why yes, I do have some German in me ...
I had top laugh now a lot. OId "definition": A German is who speaks [a] German [language/dialect]. Do you speak German?
also studied German a very long time ago ... all German nouns have gender, including der Gott ...
No: You are wrong. We have many words without article in different contextes. "Ein Gott" ("einer", "eine", "ein" are also articles) is one god under many gods. But only Muslims use the very new form "Gott" with male article "der Gott" - what's a very modern artificial expression made on reason to build a wall to the Christian religion and our use of the word god. The traditional use of the word "Gott" is always only without article .
"Deutschland" (=Germany) and other names of countries are also used without article. As I said: It exist four forms of "grammatical "sex" (=Geschlecht)" = "grammatical gender": Male, female, neuter and none. And this "sexes" have indeed nearly nothing to do with biological sex. Nice example "das Mädchen" = "the girl" is not female but neuter like "das Kind" = "the child" - but "der Junge" = "the boy" is male like "der Mann" = "the man".
Are you stupid or just playing the strawman argument ...
... must be just stupid ...
German nouns - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Deutsche Deklination – Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org
We have no word for "gender" in our language. The whole gender-discussion is in Germany a discussion of very few pseudo-intellectuals who think they have the right and/or the duty to tell others how they have to think. This "intellectuals" overestimate the influence of language (formal systems., "laws") and underestimate the influence of experience and logos (reality).
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