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Old 12-18-2006, 07:14 PM
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Question Feminine/Masculine Names
Does your city have a feminine or masculine name?

If you were to say your city is beautiful, would you say "She is beautiful", or "He is beautiful"? I'm not sure if it even matters in English.

In Bosnian, cities are either feminine or masculine in name. Most are feminine. You conjugate them with an "A".

For example, Sarajevo. If you wanted to say "Greetings from Sarajevo!", you would say:

Pozdrav iz Sarajeva!

An example of a masculine city would be Tuzla. To say "Greetngs from Tuzla!", you would say:

Pozdrav iz Tuzle!

Two-word place names require a little more work. Sanski Most, for example, means "Sanian Bridge", after the river Sana which flows through the town. To say "Greetings from Sanski Most!" it would be:

Pozdrav iz Sanskog Mosta!

Most city-names are feminine, but most country names are masculine. Slavs mainly have "Fatherlands", not "Motherlands" (or Motherships... lol)

Examples could be:

Greetings from Bosnia and Herzegovina! = Pozdrav iz Bosne i Hercegovine!

Greetings from Croatia! = Pozdrav iz Hrvatske!

Greetings from Serbia! = Pozdrav iz Srbije!

How about for you?
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Old 12-18-2006, 07:27 PM
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The names of most of our cities are incredibly ugly, and you just say "It is beautiful". They aren't masculine or feminine, as far as I know.

Examples of Ugly City names (in my educated opinion): Franklin, Hendersonville, Spring Hill, New York, Huntsville, Union City

Pretty City Names: Philadelphia, Valdosta, New Orleans, Augusta, New Echota, Talequah
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Old 12-18-2006, 07:44 PM
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English, as a language, doesn't have masculine/feminine nouns, like a lot of other languages do.

But there's Chelsea Massachusetts for one...
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Does your city have a feminine or masculine name?
Atlanta is named after a female figure in Greek mythology.

It was formally known as "Terminus" because it was a major railroad hub, but that's neither feminine nor masculine.

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If you were to say your city is beautiful, would you say "She is beautiful", or "He is beautiful"? I'm not sure if it even matters in English.
"It" is beautiful.

English speakers don't do much with gender, and most think it's kind of odd that other languages would associate gender with inanimate objects.

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Most city-names are feminine, but most country names are masculine. Slavs mainly have "Fatherlands", not "Motherlands" (or Motherships... lol)
Even our post-911 creation of "homeland" is gender neutral.

(Pet peeve: Sorry, "homeland" just grates on my nerves. I don't use it. It is not logical, but there it is.)

I didn't realize that in Bosniak cities could swing between genders.
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Examples of Ugly City names (in my educated opinion): Franklin, Hendersonville, Spring Hill, New York, Huntsville, Union City
Oh, I can think of LOTS worse than those! How about Poughkipsie? (sheesh, did I even come close to spelling that right?) Pittsburgh. Anything-burgh (lots of variations on that).

Oooh! How about... GRAYLING!!!

Pretty City Names: Philadelphia, Valdosta, New Orleans, Augusta, New Echota, Talequah[/quote]

Kalamazoo.

Personally, I think the Indian names we swiped are the best, and especially if you know what original meaning.

Hm, do First Nations languages use gender?
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Pretty City Names: Philadelphia, Valdosta, New Orleans, Augusta
Augusta...go Maine!
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Puyallup doesn't seem too masculine or feminine to me. It's just the one of the local tribes.
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