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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OMG, I've been doing my Duolingo lessons and never realised that they had different meanings, I just thought Germans used one word for all bodies of water 😭

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Die See" denotes an ocean, "der See" denotes a lake. You will more often hear "das Meer" instead of "die See" tho.