Martin Gallo wrote:
Interesting...Now, try and write that with a single gender-neutral pronoun: "James met Jack and Helen at the mall. Hän had long fancied häntä (objective form), but knew that hän was with hän, so hän had always kept hänen (his/her) feelings to hänself."Are you REQUIRED to use the neutral from when writing in Finnish? My 'solution' would be to just write the proper male/female pronoun. Of course it might just be that particular example....
You missed the point, Martin, there is no way to write it with gender specific pronouns in Finnish, because the language only has one, single pronoun that is used for both sexes. There are NO gender specific pronouns in my native language.
Edi