Thereās definitely some additional nuance (like a pronouns in bio/username situation) but this should cover the broad needs of anyone who is approaching this with good faith.
Thereās definitely some additional nuance (like a pronouns in bio/username situation) but this should cover the broad needs of anyone who is approaching this with good faith.
Actually, MƤdchen (meaning āgirlā in German) is a diminutive. It comes from Magd (an old word for āmaidā or āyoung womanā) with the -chen suffix, which is a common diminutive in German.
The -chen suffix makes words grammatically neuter, which is why MƤdchen takes das instead of die, even though it refers to a female person.
Iām not German but the same applies to the Dutch word for girl, and weāve the same rule for neutral. By the way, āmagdā in Dutch means virgin (maagd to be precise), which sounds incredibly inappropriate to be going around calling someone; little virgin (/ĀÆ ą² _ą² )/ĀÆ
Sorry if you already know this, but it sounds from the wording of your post that you might not know that āmaidā or āmaidenā means virgin also.
No need to be sorry. I didnāt realise, in Dutch I donāt think that connotation stuck for the equivalent, meid. That simply means girl.
āmy maiden auntā means an aunt who never married (and itās presumed to be virginal because what other option is there /s)
So yeah