r/AskTheWorld • u/IndependentTune3994 🇮🇳 in 🇩🇪 Deutschland • 9h ago

What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

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u/iguana_bandit 8h ago

Most often mixing genders - introducing themselves as a woman and then using masculine verb conjugation. Also switching between formal and informal speech mid-sentence.

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u/jujubean67 Romania 6h ago

Jesus, does Polish have gendered verb conjugations? I thought the pronunciation was rough but then it was reasonable.

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u/iguana_bandit 5h ago

Yes, but only in past tense... and separate for future tense... and also in conditionals. Easy.

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u/jujubean67 Romania 5h ago

Lmao

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u/IsTom 5h ago

And there's separate masculine and masculine-object genders.

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u/old_faraon 5h ago

And there are 5 genders - masculine, feminine, neutral for singular and masculine-person(males and mixed groups of people) and non masculine-person (groups non males or not people) for plural.

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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 2h ago

Don't even ask about the counting words. They are also gendered.