"Ένα κορίτσι, μία γυναίκα."
Translation:A girl, a woman.
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Same thing happens in German. "Mädchen", despite meaning "girl", is neuter instead of feminine since most (if not all) nouns ending in "-chen" are neuter.
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It's interesting that in my language - Slovak which is a Slavic language, the word for girl "dievča" is also neuter.
so is in Czech, but Jarko, I think both Czech and Slovak, have this strange phenomenon: little girl is either neuter (dievča, děvče) or feminine, even a newborn (holčička) BUT it seems to me that for the boys we have only masculine (kluk, chlapec, chlapeček). A bit of gender inequality? [BTW, gender spells gender, not genre, Theo]
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Maybe it helps if I also explain why these nouns are neutral in German and Dutch despite describing a feminine object. It is because of the diminutive, which is a marker to make it smaller. In Dutch there is also a form without this marker "de meid" which gets the feminine article. The more common form, however, is "het meisje" which has the neutral form because of describing a "small" girl. Leaving out the diminutive, practically, only happens in expressions like "grote meid" (big girl). In German it would be even rarer to say Mädchen without the diminutive -chen.
This is comparable with the Spanish -ito
Poco
Poquito
I am still new to Greek, but I guess the same applies here.
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κορίτσια => girls "τα κορίτσια" = the girls
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