• Zephorah@discuss.onlineOP
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      10 hours ago

      As hetero women we will often refer to friends who are girls as girlfriends. You could be right, but the 7 here is what I just described.

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        8 hours ago

        English is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner

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          8 hours ago

          English doesn’t even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.

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          Not German. But it’s usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive.

          Mein Freundin = Partner

          Eine Freundin = Friend

          English is usually the same though.

          My girlfriend = Partner

          One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend