How to know a word's gender - Super Easy German (70)

Hello everyone! Today we are talking about gender in German. As you know, there are three articles. THE is the feminine article, THE is the masculine article, and THE is the neuter. And many people learning German have problems with nouns for a very long time. To learn with the articles. One must always know which noun takes which article, so that one can use them correctly. decline in the sentence. Today we want to help you a bit with that, but in advance, so much. Unfortunately, there is no rule that allows one to determine the article for every noun with 100% certainty. But there are a few small rules, and if you know them, that already helps a lot for A very large number of words, and we will show them to you today. First, a general note: only 1.3% of all words have two different genders or have more than one, for example, DER laptop and DAS laptop. This mainly happens with words that have been borrowed from other languages. However, most words have only one gender, and you must absolutely learn that. Something interesting perhaps for you: 46% of all words are feminine, 34% of all words Masculine, and only 20% of all words have a neutral article. Now we're showing you the rules so that you can at least remember a few words could Now we're going to show you a list of rules, or rather, a list of endings that always follow Let a feminine word be concluded. The first is -ei; words ending in -ei are always feminine, for example, the file, the bakery or the police. ANZ, the distance, the tolerance, the balance, ENZ, the conference, the existence, the tendency. All words ending in HEIT and KEIT are always feminine, for example, freedom, the illness, the safety, the difficulty, or the speed. Words ending in IE that relate to democracy, the study, or energy. Words ending in -ICK are also always feminine, for example, the factory, the politics. statistics and technology. Words ending in ION: the action, the discussion, the information, the region, and the religion. Words ending in -ITÄT, such as identity, stability, and activity. All words ending in SCHAFT are also feminine, for example friendship, the Society and the team. Words ending in UNK are also feminine, the movement, the ending, the distance. Words with UR, the agency, the nature, the keyboard. And you naturally already know that suffixes with IN always indicate a female person. an, for example, a female职业 title, such as the female doctor or the female student or even a woman from a certain country, such as a Turkish woman or The American woman. Now let's move on to the nouns that are always or almost always masculine. Words ending in -AND are definitely masculine, for example, der Lieferant. the client or the migrant. Words ending in -END are always masculine: the patient, the student, the president. Words with "ICH" at the end, such as the carpet and the peach, Ling, the twin, The butterfly, the coward. Most nouns ending in -er are also masculine, for example, the teacher, the Driver, but not all. For example, there is also butter. Still, you can remember that almost all with ER are masculine. All words on ISMUS are masculine: the alcoholism, the atheism, the tourism, the racism. Endings with IST, the journalist, the police officer. All endings with OR are always masculine, for example the author, the director, or the engine Days and months are also masculine, for example Monday, April, or the December Almost all weather elements are masculine, for example, rain or snow. Cardinal directions are always masculine, the north, the south. And, most importantly, almost all alcoholic beverages are masculine—the champagne, the wine, The vodka, but the beer. Finally, we present to you the group of neuter nouns. Here too, there are some rules you can remember for words that are always or almost always always neuter. And the first are diminutives, that is, all words that are made smaller, for example words, Those ending in CHEN or LEIN are always neuter (das). For example, the little tree, the little house, the girl, the little table, or the little cottage. Janusz is currently sitting in front of a little house. A suffix that always indicates a neuter noun is -MENT, as in the argument, the document, the The element, the instrument, the medication, or the statement. Words ending in -UM are also neuter, for example, the date, the audience, the universe Most words ending in -tum, such as Christianity, ownership, are also neuter. Most words ending in MA are also neutral, for example, the comma, the Aroma or the theme. Whatever is neutral are substantivized verbs, for example, life, reading. or swimming. Moreover, most metals are neutral, for example silver and gold. And finally, most nouns beginning with G, for example, the building, The mountains or the shouting are also neutral. Yes, that was our video for today, and you've seen that there are relatively many endings. which are always assigned to a specific gender. And what you can do now as an exercise, you can of course watch the video again, but you can also just keep writing down words over and over, for example freedom, the safety. When you collect many words with these endings, you will eventually realize that everything begins with HEIT always has the definite article "die" before the word. That was our short video, shot in Ghana, and it will be next Sunday. Then you'll see a new video from Berlin. Thanks for watching! Now, very important, you can do exercises, namely if you become a patron of EasyGerman. As a patron, you receive many exercises every week on our topics, and today, of course, there is Exercises on the articles, and we'll test how many of the endings you've already mastered you have learned You can do that interactively. Become a patron now and definitely subscribe to EasyGerman. Give us a thumbs up if you liked the video, and see you soon! Hello!