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Originally Posted by KevinH
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(As an aside can someone please explain why in German the word for a women's skirt is masculine! Babble is driving me crazy with "der Rock"  |
Noun genders in German are more or less arbitrary. In the case of items of clothing it has nothing to do with the sex of the persons who would wear them. Büstenhalter is masculine. Different nouns for the same thing can have different genders.
There are some guidelines here ==>>
https://germanwithlaura.com/noun-gender/
German, Austrian and Swiss rivers are feminine whereas the rest are masculine. Not exactly arbitrary, just plain bloody daft
