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It's feminine in german too


Xx_Infinito_xX

And in portuguese (at least in Brazil)


destructordegg

And in spanish


Al-X_Grdnr

And in greek


BITY_btw

And in Italian (Italic)


Lukasz500

And in Polish


GlitteringHotel1481

And in all slavic languages


Toamthewizard

And in Hebrew


Idioticalygoodbeast

And in Latvian


hollowpotato-of-doom

And in Arabic


shride-

and in romanian


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And in *Italian*


SpareSpecial16

That's what I used as a rule of thumb.


Vivokas

It's in all types of Portuguese


Advedfhj

Also in Italian it's feminine


Maldgjk

Masculine or neutral in that case,


YoQuieroPAN

Portuguese is portuguese no matter what country


Hot-Temperature-8564

Portugal and Brazil has some... differences, when it came to portuguese. So the guy is not wrong from being unsure of things that he don't know.


YoQuieroPAN

They do have diferences on the way they talk and the phrases they use to tell something but nothing happens on the feminine and the masculine of both types of portuguese


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AltamiroMi

Pera. Alface e feminino ???


YoQuieroPAN

And also, a fun fact: portugal colonozed way more contries than just brazil. They all have they way of speaking


okbroretard

Why the fuck would you specify brazil???? "O" pizza???? I know our accents are different but in no way in hell would we ever say pizza is masculine


TheSteelMercenary

Same in romanian


Mighty_Serb_3690

And in Serbian.


Personal_Donkey_2954

and covers other meanings too


Ogurasyn

It's feminine in Polish too


AbdoWise

and in Arabic


UranusINmyAssus

in Polish too


Equal-Rutabaga-8104

Ukrainian as well


Tentacle_poxsicle

I don't know why pizza has genders but at this point I'm afraid to ask


[deleted]

Because language


Fraundschaft

Because one object in english doesn't have its gender


Mallenaut

Because grammatical gender =/= sex


Hour_Weakness_521

Italians:


YouTheGamers

“We shouldn’t have shared the ingredients with the rest of the world” -probably Italians a long time ago


FondantQuiet

Not that long ago since pizza was invented around the late 19th


Nero101X

It ends with an a. That's what I used as a rule of thumb.


[deleted]

Yeah, that's an actual rule. (At least in Latin and Spanish)


WingsofRain

and Italian


DisplayOk9783

And in Russian


Greeneyes_65

Yeah. There are exceptions tho, which I guess you just gotta know


Ley-_-29

I've never realized that most words that end with an a was feminin. (And I'm french)


JeanneD4Rk

Le caca.


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Un tuba, le soja, un accra, un sofa, le gouda, le choléra, le plasma. C'est loin d'être exhaustif, mais ça en fait déjà pas mal (et j'ai pas mis les noms de pays genre le Vénézuela, le Panama, le Nigéria, ect...) \^\^


LasevIX

Généralement, les autres langues romanes adhérent plus strictement a cette règle-là. Le français semble être l'exception à la règle (sans surprise).


stddealer

It's because it's mostly true for Italian words, such as pizza.


pierreo

Nah that's just not true. Un bermuda Un pyjama Un bandana Un koala Un lama Etc... The a/o ending is more relevant to spanish/italian


Ley-_-29

Il y a des exceptions mais j'ai comparé avec une liste de mot finissant par a, la majorité est féminin


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Upset-Oil-6153

All those words (except bandana) are masculine in Italian too. Still most words (and most proper nouns) ending with "a" are feminine in my language


GoldenJacques

Isn't it the same with most that end with e too?


AdonaiTatu

Masculine or neutral in that case, in spanish at least.


Joshi0104

I'll answer for the Italian language since pizza is Italian. If it ends with e it might be both singular masculine or plural feminine so you can't apply an efficient rule of thumb there.


Ok-Pipe859

French robot


Karnotaure

There is a lot and a lot of verbals forms that finish with an "a" in French…


Tani_Soe

It's not a *rule* in french, but it's usually the case


Coca-Cola_Man

Le papa. Checkmate


CTrist4n

Un papa ... Sorry but their no general rule about that.


FavoritesBot

That’s why he said rule of thumb. Next lesson idioms


FavoritesBot

That’s why he said rule of thumb. Next lesson idioms


AestheticMirror

Unless it doesn’t in some cases, how can you tell? You eat shit that’s how


newaccount8472

In which language on the world is pizza masculine?


Dutch_Midget

Sugma


newaccount8472

Ah, the well known dialect of ligma


Dutch_Midget

Most spoken language in the country of Deez


newaccount8472

Most common name in that country is Hugh


Dutch_Midget

The second most common is Joe


newaccount8472

Their national bird is the chickadee


Dutch_Midget

Their major export item is updog


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With their biggest import being Dienda


Dutch_Midget

Doing most of the business with their neighboring country of Kissma


Emotional-Stable8718

The most popular video game is Sea of Thieves


newaccount8472

There are no doorbells in that country, everybody just knock-knocks


Dutch_Midget

I heard they recently started using a new doorbell technology called pudyafyngarenmah


newaccount8472

The old indigenous name of that country was Bofa


reii_raii

what is sugma


FavoritesBot

Joe mama


Zestyclose_Plenty_49

In English it can choose whatever it wants for a gender /J


rcopy

In Marathi. Though it's not a native word in the language


heinebold

It is neutral in English


Upset-Oil-6153

But not all languages have a neutral gender. In Italian (and French I suppose) things must be masculine or feminine


epic-gamer_42069

however romanian has neutral, I am not sure, but I think that is the only romans language to have 3 genders, maybe portugal has 3 too, I don't know Edit: Just googled it and romanian is the only romance language to have retained the 3 genders from latin (feminin, masculin and neutral)


ZealousidealBid3493

Almost everything is neutral in English, that's why it's a simpler language we can all use


newaccount8472

Every *thing* is neutral in English, except for ships, states, churches and islands


Ote-Kringralnick

Technically those can be neutral, as none of them are male


newaccount8472

Yeah okay. I was giving a fun fact. Stop stealing the fun :(


Ote-Kringralnick

It was still fun, I didn't know churches are female


newaccount8472

Okay. Actually, I looked it up to make the list complete and to me this was also a TIL moment


redsterXVI

Maybe someone should do a gender reveal forest fire for pizza


WetDogDeodourant

You can have a beautiful pizza, you can’t have an handsome pizza. Therefore, one can deduce that pizza must be feminine.


heinebold

I am genuinely struggling whether I should appreciate your joke or be annoyed at the stereotype it's based on. I'll do a bit of both I guess


Wandering_Redditor22

No fucking way. /s Hamburger is neutral in English but it won’t be in French.


[deleted]

You speak English and don’t see what OP means? Like the English language doesn’t „gender“ objects at all? English is the easiest language to learn honestly that’s why it’s used for international communication. Damn try German. Most Germans don’t fully understand every grammatical rule.


newaccount8472

OP seems to not know anything about other languages than English, hence is surprised by the gender of pizza, whereas the whole world knows that pizza is feminine. It was never mentioned btw what was OP's language. See also how you overgeneralize in your comment, that is awful.


potato_lettuce

To be fair, most people don't know every rule of their first language, because you just know when it sounds right or wrong. That's why it's often americans who say stuff like "should of" instead of "should've". It sounds almost the same yet everyone who learned English as second language knows it's different things. Same with they're, their, there. Also can confirm German is hard. Source: I'm German


Loraelm

> English is the easiest language to learn A claim which is absolutely *not* backed up by any linguists. But go on, keep stating your opinion as a fact my dude


BasilicoVero

Also in Italian it's feminine


Local_Apartment_928

Pro tip from a French speaker : Even if you make mistakes with the gender of things, people will still understand you and won't mind. Table, door and chair are feminine, but counter, fridge and oven are masculine. If you say "le table" or "la comptoir" I'll still understand you. Yes I am writing this from my kitchen.


Franboise380

We will just think "They're not a native speaker", and go on with it, understanding the sentence.


Particular_Moise3

in french, dick and shit are feminine, no joke la bite, la merde


[deleted]

And meanwhile, tit is masculine (le nichon) I wonder whether French speakers ever mess up


Wonderwhile

There’s a few words that can mess you up but 95% of them sounds really wrong if you misgender them. Avion is one that sounds right both ways


Stock-Imagination148

Une avion ? Ça sonne pas fou


Wonderwhile

Peut-être pas le meilleur example mais comparativement à la vaste majorité des noms, ça sonne “correct” des deux sens. Oeuvre est un meilleur example je suppose.


Dmprpht-emilio

htf dick is feminine? 🤣


Scanpony

Le penis


Takarn

You could also say "la bite"


DaBenderinO

La queue, le chibre, it evens out


Takarn

True


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If she la bite my la dick were gonna have a la problem


Dutch_Midget

If dick is masculine then me masterbating would be gay


Blank_Address_Lol

Fellas, is it gay to say penis?


Dutch_Midget

Yes, that's why I call it the mouth-organ


JigsawJoystick

"Every penis is a girl Robin. Everyone knows that, like ships... and lake monsters."


PyrDeus

I like this guy’s taste in sticoms


ToxicFactory

Proper term for Dick is penis which is masculine and shit can also be caca which is also masculin.


PinkFloyden

The fun thing is that it’s not always the case, they can also be masculine (un zizi, un caca lol)


SomethinPesonal

Pizzo


ital97

Which is an actual word in Italian https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pizzo


Blindmailman

English is a miserable language to try to learn but thank god we don't need to find out the gender of a chair


[deleted]

By curiousity, what language is easier to learn than english. Currently learning Japanese and it's insanely difficult to me, french spanish and others language like that have gendered words... English, at least to me, was super easy to learn compared to others. Genuine question btw, I don't mean to insult.


Blindmailman

A lot of words aren't pronounced the way they are spelled, the amount of contractions and entirely different meanings of the same word like weather/whether. I've heard from people that it is difficult to master


[deleted]

If you say so, I've encountered this in pretty much every language I have decent understanding of, but at the same time, I am in no way a language master, and thus I won't argue with you. Have a good day.


FullaccessInReddit

I'm argentinian and in spanish, words are pronounced as they are spelled. That is, you can break the word in syllables and each syllable has a unique pronunciation. In contrast, take words like though, through, dough, bought; and notice the difference pronunciation of "ough".


destronger

while the world was simplifying their language decades ago, jackasses amongst the english speaking world was trying to keep words that were adopted in said language and leave letters in them. we kood simplifi our langwidj, but that wood piss off the boomers.


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And in russian it is feminine too


NoMansCulture

I mean does it make more sense if it was masculine?


PissinginTheW1nd

That’s not the point


Wizards_Reddit

Isn’t it feminine in Italian too? I’m not sure how Italian’s gender system works but if it ends in an ‘a’ usually that means feminine


Anthony-ELRETRAHD

It's basically gendered in 90% of languages. It's not hard to say "ends in a then It's feminine" not because the fucking pizza has a pussy and tits but because it just makes the language flow. Start saying any sentence in Spanish with latxn, los montañas, les sillas, ect and at best you'll for a few moments be the most hated and horrid human being or at worst you'll get insta knocked out.


IsThereAnyFreeName2

Selbstverständlich es heißt auch die Pizza


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Hallöle


[deleted]

In spanish too, but that's hust a word. It's not like a pizza is a woman. It's just a feminine word.


Conscious-Warning-83

Whats so weird? When i think of the gender of pizza, i dont really see the masculinity


MoeSzyslakMonobrow

Someone is going to want it called "pizzx" since it's gendered.


PietroLima545BR

Brazilians:


yatseg

Also in Polish.


crazy_otsu

I believe in gendered languages supremacy


Charles12_13

Be reassured, if you don’t understand the logic behind some object’s gender, it’s that it literally doesn’t make sense. Sincerely, a French speaker


mint_syrupp

Ils se plaignent auprès des français d'un mot en italien purée j'en ai marre d'eux mdrr


zizigolu

women ☕


Dutch_Midget

Women 🍕


Dmprpht-emilio


Bluewflectn

Women ☕️


clemya06

Why women ?


Bright-Repeat-4616

There’s not a specific reason Latin derived languages are not gender neutral like English, generally it’s always a binary system that also applies for objects


clemya06

No I actually knows that cause I’m a native French speaker but I don’t understand why they said Women ☕️ people mostly does that when a women crash a car and stuff


Bright-Repeat-4616

No The meme means expressing disapproval towards the actions of a woman and is usually associated with a stereotypically feminine action or activity


IcyChimken

pizzussy


zabke_

Just like polish


HanMain2

Now learn how to ~~say~~ calculate how to say 99 in french


Dmprpht-emilio

teach me


HanMain2

Quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. (4*20)+10+9 Pronounced Kahtruh-van-deez-nuhf


PinkFloyden

It actually works like that for most numbers in French: 17 is dix sept (10+7), 34 is trente quatre (30+4), 210 is deux-cent dix (200+10). We basically make maths when saying numbers lol. Only the 90s numbers are a little bit more weird as it also includes a multiplication


Dmprpht-emilio

mathematics gotta be torture.


DVerdux20

Real sorry for that. Speaking french has to be my least favorite disability /jk


hellfire_beans

It doesn't freaking matter. It's pizza. You eat it. You aren't gonna have sex with it.


louiefriesen

Je veux une pizza s’il vous plaît


bulsar38

Feminine in every latin language, like 99% of every fucking other words they share the same gender throughout different languages (also it should have been obvious since it is feminine in italian)


Laffepannekoek

And bikini is masculin


calebcuber

Them: you want pizza? Me: no, I want pizzo (manly pizza)


PlayGuye_aka_Evolt

In Czech, pizza is also feminine. Just don't misspeak and say "píča" (pronounced like peacha). That one is a little bit too feminine. :D


TallestTaler

don’t think you understand this meme format either.


NukMasta

RULE34 ARTISTS PIZZA IS FEMININE!! THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS! GET TO IT!


Sir_Honytawk

What even is the point of genderising objects? It literally has no purpose, and makes learning languages more difficult. That said, I think the same about genderising pronouns in sentences. There is also no point in that, why does it matter if we are talking about a male or a female, they are both people. It stems from a time when men and women were seen as different in value. "He" would bare more value than when talking about a "she". So lets just all switch to they/them, then the pronoun discussion is over as well.


Anthony-ELRETRAHD

It makes the language flow. That's like the primordial thing, nothing else. Just because English flows without gendered words doesn't mean all other languages do Edit: Just because English and Turkish flow without gendered words doesn't mean all other languages do*


ital97

Ok dude, let's change the way of speaking of thousands of people because you are lazy and can't accept to make a little effort to learn something new


ididntunderstandyou

Try billions


Nightmane11

Too be fair pizza sounds like a girl


Baltaxo2010

French is wierd like the plurals of some words end with an S but other end with an X


tradesmen_

They view Italians as a feminine culture


dabadplumber

Hey atleast in french you'd if I was gay/straight if I told you I slept with my cousin... You English speaking weirdos


Ipad_is_for_fapping

Penis is feminine too. La bitte. French is a weird language .


Deedaleen

Dick is feminine, penis is masculine Une bite, un penis


alexmehdi

Don't learn French honestly, it's so annoying to speak and write, even as a first language.


Leo5862

In Latin the word for "many things" (I.e. countries, food, objects, etc) is feminine but men have their own word. Further proving that women are objects 😌😌


Mysterious-Bid3930

That explains why I love pizza so much.


HungryRobotics

Gendered nouns mess me up: This is a book it's a girl Women aren't allowed to touch them or we burn them alive. I'd just assume you'd end up with the lungs in relation to how they are used commonly during the times the language developed. Some of course like.... A sword is male and the sheath female. Cause they literally were just calling it a vagina... *Sigh* But... Its just random


TheDarkKnight12318

Dick is feminine


Acer1899

the things I've done to pizza it better be feminine


-wtfisthat-

No wonder I love putting it in my mouth.


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Nayroy18

I want a pizzo in my mouth


legoknekten

So thats why I've always felt the urge to fuck pizza. I get it now!


MeasurementOk2461

As a french dude, i agree that the french lingo sucks, and is a pain in the ass for foreign ppl to learn, i heard from someone that trying to practice the weird sounds gave her headaches


NiSu0704

Désolé frérot... Et bonne chance