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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online [S] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

As hetero women we will often refer to friends who are girls as girlfriends. You could be right, but the 7 here is what I just described.

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[–] TRock@feddit.dk 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

English is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

English doesn't even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.

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[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

I mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.

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[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago*

Not German. But it's usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive.

Mein Freundin = Partner

Eine Freundin = Friend

English is usually the same though.

My girlfriend = Partner

One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend

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