Pythonistas? <- Re: OT: Perl programmers?
Afonso Fernandez Nogueira
afonso at writeme.com
Thu Feb 14 09:51:01 EST 2002
>Gustavo Cordova <gcordova at hebmex.com> graced us by uttering:
>> And also "agua" which seems female, but it's a male subject: "el agua".
>IIRC, "agua" _is_ feminine, but takes the masculine article when
>singular. Mi diccionario dice que "agua" es feminina, también.
>OTOH, la palabra "mar" es masculina _y_ feminina. Por ejemplo:
>
> "el agua en la mar" # Correct
> "las aguas del mar" # Correct
Right. "Agua" is feminine, but takes the masculine article in singular just to avoid the cacophony of the two consecutive a's.
"La _ agua" is considered difficult to say and/or ugly in Spanish, as you can't merge the sounds together as if in Catalan "L'aigua".
But this doesn't apply to every word starting with "a", only in a few cases.
almost-zero-python-knowledge-but-eager-to-share-email-address-with-spammers'ly yours
fonso
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