<p>why are some countries female and some male?</p>
<p>Are you asking about genus? Like why is Britain sometimes reffered to as “she”?
These things come from the time when English nouns had genus like German does.
Are you asking something funnier and I’m not realising it?</p>
<p>na nothing funny was jst wondering why</p>
<p>germany is called the fatherland. dpends on the people i suppose. Britain is a she because its represented as Brittania, India is a she because it is represented as a mother Goddess, and Germany’s male probably because of Hitler’s rehtoric.</p>
<p>Havaldaar about Germany, I suspect Hitler is not to “blame” here. German has the interesting habit of translating all words literally. Fatherland (das Vaterland) comes from the Latin patria<pater = father, or at least that’s my theory.</p>
<p>hmmm maybe you’re right. But i remember seeing this film where some German soldiers and American soldiers were cooped up in this woman’s house trying to survive the winter, and they kept mentioning The Fatherland in connection with Hitler,so thats where I figured it came from</p>