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M. Verdone

"Der Lockdown" is a new word in German, as far as I know appearing sometime last year.

Who exactly decided it should get the masculine "der" prefix? Someone must have decided, or a consensus was reached.

4 Jan 2021 at 17:21 | Open on icosahedron.website
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cat***

@sixohsix as a native speaker, i can only say that anything else would sound strange

4 Jan 2021 at 17:22 | Open on icosahedron.website
Eugen Rochko
cat***

@Gargron @sixohsix hmmm that makes it feel like a nounified verb to me

4 Jan 2021 at 17:28 | Open on icosahedron.website
Eugen Rochko

@cpsdqs @sixohsix I'm not feeling it but then I'm not a native speaker. It's "das Internet" but "der Computer" and "der Shop". Seems like there is no unified rule for loan words (or it is not obvious to me)

4 Jan 2021 at 17:31 | Open on mastodon.social
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