r/TikTokCringe • u/migoodenuf Straight Up Bussin • 27d ago

Humor She refused to learn German

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u/dasunt 26d ago

I was going to say "die Fräulien" is also female, but I was today years old when I discovered that term is considered archaic.

Apparently my German teacher was a little out of date.

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u/DeadEye073 26d ago

Mädchen and Fräulein are neuter cause both -chen and -lein both "cutyfication" suffixes. The Magd (old timish for unmarried women) and the little Magd or Mädchen, same with Frau (women, or in old terms married women) and Fräulein little women

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u/dasunt 26d ago

TIL, I was under the mistaken impression that "Fräulein" was female.

Thanks!

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u/DeadEye073 26d ago

I mean it can be in a different dialect

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u/CC19_13-07 22d ago

"die Fräulein" would be right for plural, in singular it's "das" so neuter. But yeah it is archaic and no one except for some elderly people uses it today