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March in European languages (jakubmarian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can never remember the months in Ukrainian. They're identical between English, German, and Russian, so I have no trouble with those, but I have no connection to the inherent meanings of the months in Ukrainian. Have to circle back to Russian usually

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Comes with actually speaking the language, and they are similar to some other slavic languages, e.g. polish.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Polish also used to call March "brzezień", which means the time in which birches grow