German noun genders
#grammar
English has “the”. Just one word for everything. When I learned that in school I was like “woot - only one” ;) Why? Well…3 genders have “survived” in the German language - and learners consider that to be a difficulty. So I wanna dedicate one or two posts to them:
maskulin / männlich (masculine) (m) - DER
feminin / weiblich (feminine) (f) - DIE
neutral / sächlich (neuter) (n) - DAS
Example:
die Frau = woman
der Mann = man
das Kind = child
When you learn new nouns my advise is: Always learn them with their accompanying definite article (der, die, das)! This is important to avoid all kinds of grammar mistakes.
Note: The grammatical gender of German nouns isn’t necessarily the real-life gender!
However, there are some noun endings which will help you recognize the gender. I’ll talk about that in another post, ok? :)
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