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[–] bremen15@feddit.de 3 points 4 months ago (10 children)

My question comes from a grammar /German background: We have four cases. They have different pronouns. Which ones should I list?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Whichever ones you want English speakers to use when referring to you.

Simple, isn't it?

[–] bremen15@feddit.de 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

Everything is simple when you know the solution.

I was not really expecting English speakers to use my German pronouns, they are for German speaking people.

Would that be the Dativ or Akkusativ form? They are both quite common and important

[–] llamajester421@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, pretty much what UNY0N said. It is about the gender, not the pronouns per se. It is an English thing that they have gendered pronouns when mostly all other stuff in the language is (assumed not) gendered. Such meticulus discussion of pronouns detached from gender makes me wonder what your reaction would be if someone held a door open for you and then called you Fraulein. Would you feel misgendered then?

[–] bremen15@feddit.de 1 points 4 months ago

Lol, that happened already.

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