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Hello and welcome back to
another episode of your German teacher
my name is Luzi and today we're gonna
talk about German genders. I know it's a
terrible problem for most German.
students how to figure out what gender the noun has...
In this video I'm gonna
show you I'm gonna share with you all
tips tricks and hacks which you can use
to determine the gender of each and
every noun. And at the end I'm gonna give
you some bonus tip which is useful in
case you forgot everything and you have
to figure out quickly
what gender you want to use.
Let's start first with the articles definite articles
"der" is masculine "die" is
feminine. And "das" is neuter.
You have three options to
figure out what gender the noun has
first one is biological sex. This is the most obvious one.
The 2nd one is the meaning.
According to the meaning you can also
figure out the gender of the noun. And
the third one is suffix.
"Nachsilbe" is suffix and this one is
probably the best one the most common
one and especially if you're a beginner,  this one is the easiest one.
Because you can just memorize all these
suffixes and according to the suffix you
can figure out the gender.
Let's start with masculine.
We start with biological sex.
Pilot, painter and doctor.
Daytimes: the morning, the noon, the afternoon.
all of them are masculine except the: the night
Days: monday, wednesday, saturday, sunday
months: all of them are masculine.
January, april, december
season:
spring, summer, fall, winter
except: "das Fruehjahr"
synonym of sping
And for all the car fans out there: car
brands are also masculine. such as in
this picture here is a German car brand
VW Volkswagen so it's "der VW"
also "der" Ferrari or "der" BMW, the Audi or the Toyota. Car brands are masculine.
Suffixes: we have here three suffixes
which are almost always almost always
over 95% are masculine.
First one is -ling. For example "the coward"
-ich... for example "the carpet"
-ismus... for example "the capitalism"
Then we have of course more suffixes. Which are
mostly not always they are exceptions
but mostly masculine as well.
Such as suffixes with -er. is probably the most
common one for masculine. for example "the suitcase"
-ant for examples "the elephant".
-ist for example "the composer"
- ig for example "the king"
the motor
the bear
hair stylist
the continent
"die" feminine
again we start with biological sex
the mother, the aunt, the sister
and of course we also have female professions.
the female pilot, painter and doctor
as you can see here when  we compare it to the male professions. For the female professions you just add
this "in"
and then you have the female version of
the profession
There are some exception. For example doctor.
Airplanes, ships and motorbikes. Most of them are also feminine.
there are exceptions but most of them
are feminine.
Suffixes which are always feminine.
the beauty
the brightness
the team
Nouns ending with one of those suffixes are always always feminine.
Talking about "die Mannschaft" Is often
referred to exactly the German national
football.
Other suffixes for example nouns ending with -e.
over 90% are feminine and this one is
probably the most crucial one and the
most important one because there are a
lot a lot of nouns ending with -e so
again just use feminine and then you
almost always gonna be right
the bottle
the brewery
the newspaper
the situation
the music
the culture
the university
the conference
The third gender: "das"
neutral neuter again we'll start with
biological sex
there's not too many for example "das Kind" (the child) is neutral we
don't know if it's a boy or a girl or
"das Ding" (a thing).
"Substantiv" is a noun "Adjektiv" is adjective.
nouns made of adjectives for example
here
"rot" (red) as an adjective is
the color
if its capitalized, as a noun
capitalized then its "the" color red
the blue, the orange
"das Unbekannte" is the unknown
The same we also have for verbs. You can take verbs and you can make nouns out of these verbs
called "substantivierte Verben"
for example: the writing
And then if you want to make a noun out of it you
just add the article "das" so it's
neutral always neutral
the writing
or to read: the reading
to run: the running (jogging)
materials are mostly also neuter
for example the wood, the glass, the metall
diminutives which are always neutral and
we have two of them. 2 suffixes which are
diminutives so meaning it makes something small and which are always neutral.
Nouns ending with "-lein".
for example: the small bird
comes from the noun "Vogel"
is a bird.
"das Voeglein" is a small bird.
or: "-chen" also makes everything smaller
"das Paeckchen"
"Das Paket" is a box, a package and "das Paeckchen"
is a small package.
always neutral then we have also other
nouns ending with "-chen" which are mostly
but not always neutral: for example "das Maedchen" (the girl)
the bed
the aquarium
the midicine
the date
the level
the training
the office
In case you forgot everything we just talked about.
And you have to make a very fast decision  to decide which gender you
gonna use. Always use feminine !
As you can see here on this
graphic 46 percent of all German nouns
are feminine. 46 percent that's almost half.
34% are masculine and only twenty
percent are actually neutral so again if
you have to decide quickly if you are in
exam whatever and you just don't know
the gender just use feminine you have
50% chance which is quite high that
you're gonna be right.
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