Potentially weirder: French is one of those langages who actually assign genders to countries.
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In short, The Ukraine implies that Ukraine is a geographic/cultural region rather than an independent country.
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Makes it sound like Ukraine is an object or a place instead of a country. Cf. ‘The Hague’
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And we say “the” everything in french
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Yeah, this is definitely a distinction doesn't translate consistently
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Doesn't necessarily work that way in other languages either; the French don't mean to denigrate themselves when they say "La France"
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Rights, and they article *and* gender places!
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neither do Russian and Ukrainian, amusingly. the distinction there is the use of a preposition used for nations versus one for regions
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