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Originally Posted by j.p.s
As a native English speaker, I've never understood why inanimate objects have genders in other languages.
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English has other quirks like a fixed adjective order, mysterious plurals, was/were, a/an, I/me, -ix or -ess for female version of title or occupation, rules for when a possessive takes or doesn't an apostrophe, with exceptions. Words that over the years take hyphens and become compound and why some will always have a hyphen. Hyphen usage when adding like for comparison.