No.312
So german anons
A day or two ago someone in my german class said that if I want to use 'it', it needs to cooperate with the gender of the noun being minimized. For example, if I wanted to use 'it' in the sentence 'der Tisch ist rot.', the sentence would be 'er ist rot'. This is diferent than what I've been taught, where it is always 'es', regardless of gender.
Who's wrong, my friends or me?
No.313
>if I wanted to use 'it' in the sentence 'der Tisch ist rot.', the sentence would be 'er ist rot'.
that is correct
Would you have said >Der Tisch ist rot - es ist rot?
who taught you that lel?
No.316
actually, it was my teacher.
I think he's pretty good, just forgot to differentiate between the 'it' as a pronoun and the neuter case.
(different ID because I'm at home)
No.362
OP, most gendered languages associate the pronouns with the grammatical genders.
English doesn't that because it has no grammatical gender, so it associates the pronouns with the "natural" genders: "he" is man, "she" is woman, "it" is object.
Have this in mind when studying German. It doesn't really matter if you're dealing with a person or a thing.
Other example for you:
>Das Mädchen ist schön, und es ist auch klug!
(The girl is pretty, and she is also smart!)
Note the "es" there is referring to Mädchen - sure, a girl, but the word is neuter, so use the neuter pronoun.