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| No, definitely not. Being a native German speaker I cannot tell you the exact rule (for me its just natural), but it depends on the ending of the noun you are referring to.
E.g., das Mädchen is always "es" even though you know "its" female.
In the above example the guy on TV will have referred to the object as something (like "Ausgrabung") and then used the grammatically correct gender ("sie" in this case). | |
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Suspect the intended humour didn't quite work there RG
