Sounds like the Scandinavians are ahead with the language, as they are in many things ;-)

Yes, the gender thing becomes really strange, once you compare different languages. I had the biggest problems, when I learned French in school, as there the male and female are often very different from German... here Spider is female by the way. But with its ending in "er" the English word "feels" male to a German... oh god, one could play this through indefinitely I guess! 😜