So I started learning Japanese for abt 2 months, but I just don’t understand how you can know if “desu” is male or female in a text. Since you can use it for both genders in a sentence.
Japanese (like English) does not have grammatical gender.
* “The professor is tall.” — “professor” can have any gender. * 先生は背が高いです。 — 「先生」 can have any gender.
This is different from languages like French and Spanish (which have two genders) or German (which has three).
* El profesor es alto. *(masculine)* * La profesora es alta. *(feminine)*
But also, note that *desu* in Japanese plays the role of a verb. Verbs don’t vary with gender in any of these languages. (The only word that does *not* change in the Spanish examples above is the verb “es.”)
2 months. Desu. Female/Male. Make it make sense.
Is this the setup for a deesu nuts joke?
As someone pointed out, Japanese has no feminine or masculine unlike languages like French, German, Italian etc.
Verbs in Japanese too have no feminine and masculine.
It’s genderless it basically translates to “it is” or a confirmation of what ever it is you are saying
If the desu is followed by an “uwu” or a (*^ ‿ <*)♡ This is also gender neutral
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Japanese (like English) does not have grammatical gender.
* “The professor is tall.” — “professor” can have any gender.
* 先生は背が高いです。 — 「先生」 can have any gender.
This is different from languages like French and Spanish (which have two genders) or German (which has three).
* El profesor es alto. *(masculine)*
* La profesora es alta. *(feminine)*
But also, note that *desu* in Japanese plays the role of a verb. Verbs don’t vary with gender in any of these languages. (The only word that does *not* change in the Spanish examples above is the verb “es.”)
2 months. Desu. Female/Male. Make it make sense.
Is this the setup for a deesu nuts joke?
As someone pointed out, Japanese has no feminine or masculine unlike languages like French, German, Italian etc.
Verbs in Japanese too have no feminine and masculine.
It’s genderless it basically translates to “it is” or a confirmation of what ever it is you are saying
If the desu is followed by an “uwu” or a (*^ ‿ <*)♡ This is also gender neutral