Since we are translating, allow the deviation, an inquiry into English language: could someone native supply the rule which gender is proper for prenouns referring to nouns without obvious gender ?
Or complete the list: the king - he the mother - she the stone - it the cat - it the tiger the Black Beauty the boat the HMS Victory the thought the child the witness the guest the person In German, every noun is of either male, female or neutral gender, like in Latin. In English the nouns are all of one gender grammatically, so the gender of the prenoun depends on the the gender of whatever the noun stands for, or am I mistaken ? Greetings Walter
