weird language thing I only realised recently: German has three genders for words (masculine/feminine/neuter represented by der/die/das) with no coherent rule, you just have to know.
But using the diminutive always changes to the neuter ("das"). Which is why the German word for "girl" is grammatically neuter.
And this concludes today's "useless language fact" section of our program.
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