> There were a lot of cognate words and similar grammar, but genders and inflectional endings didn't match well at all. That drove the dramatic simplification of English grammar, for the most part.
It's why English nouns lost their masculine and feminine grammatical gender. The people who used both languages had more important things to worry about.
It's why English nouns lost their masculine and feminine grammatical gender. The people who used both languages had more important things to worry about.