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When people call Ukraine "the Ukraine"

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When people call Ukraine "the Ukraine"

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You don’t say the Canada, the Ireland, the Iraq, the Japan, etc…

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In German we use the article only for feminine countries. Yes, everything has a gender in German, even countries. We say “Die Ukraine”, but just “England” and not “Das England”.

But English has lost its grammatical genders some 800 years ago, I guess that’s too long ago for being the reason.

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