In Old Hittite, words with this feature used the ergative suffix -ants to bypass the restriction that they could not be the subject of a transitive verb. Words with this feature account for only one-fifth of Slavic lexicons and mostly end with -o after a historical shift away from their default use. In Danish and Swedish, the distinction between this feature and a “common” counterpart resulted from the breakdown of a (*) tripartite system. Latin words with this feature are identical in the nominative and accusative cases and its vestiges in Romance languages include the Spanish pronoun ello (“EH-yo”). In Proto-Indo-European, this feature was derived from inanimate status. For 10 points, name this grammatical gender of German nouns that use the article “das,” which are neither masculine nor feminine. ■END■
| 2025 Chicago Open | 2025-08-09 | Y | 11 | 100% | 27% | 9% | 92.45 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Matt Bollinger | BHSU B | The True Dharma Eye of the Juan Soto School | 95 | 10 |
| Natan Holtzman | The RAND Coöperation | Floridovician | 96 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Please sir, may I have some morb? | Enjoying the Hole Experience | 112 | -5 |
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