Timeline for Why is it "der Bikini"? Shouldn't the noun be feminine?
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| Mar 11, 2014 at 14:44 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGerman/status/443397091667484672 | ||
| Mar 3, 2014 at 14:56 | answer | added | DisplayName | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 11:23 | comment | added | Takkat | also see this related Q & A: german.stackexchange.com/questions/5545/… | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 10:37 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | Why was this downvoted? Just because a central premise of the question (garments for females should be grammatically female) turned out to be debatable does not mean that it was not a justified assumption. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 9:11 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 3, 2014 at 3:42 | comment | added | user unknown | Es gibt keine Regel wonach Dinge in die weibliche Sphäre gehören weiblich sind oder Dinge die zu Männern gehören männlich. Die Frage basiert also schon auf einer Fantasieregel. Es gibt also keine Ausnahme die legitimiert werden müsste. | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 3:38 | history | edited | user unknown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Surely only questions terminate in a question mark!
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| Mar 2, 2014 at 23:57 | comment | added | Damon | If it was female, then "Das ist mein(e) itsie-bitsie teenie-weenie Strandbikini" wouldn't have the correct meter any more. But seriously, maillot de bain (as well as Badeanzug) is male, so it makes sense. But whatever the reason, Louis Réard called it le bikini. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 22:55 | answer | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | timeline score: 18 | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 22:46 | comment | added | Robert | Zum Beispiel "Mädchen": In Verniedlichungsform sind alle Nomen neutral. Die Maid, das Mädchen; der Hase, das Häschen; der Tisch, das Tischchen. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 22:00 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ |
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| Mar 2, 2014 at 20:59 | comment | added | Amandasaurus | I know often it just is, and we cannot know. But Bikini, being a recent invention, I thought there'd be more details available. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 20:51 | comment | added | Thorsten Dittmar | No. They made it male because "die Badehose" for men was female already. Two females are one too many. Seriously, like most of the time the answer here is "it is what it is" - in many cases it does not make sense to ponder about the gender of nouns in the German language. Learn them along with the meaning and you're fine. | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 20:51 | comment | added | knut | Another idea: In French it is 'le bikini' (also male). Maybe it is taken from there and the question is: Why is bikini male in French? | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 20:44 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 2, 2014 at 20:33 | comment | added | knut | Maybe, because it is a kind of Badeanzug (= der Badeanzug). | |
| Mar 2, 2014 at 20:24 | history | asked | Amandasaurus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |