Geschlecht Der Substantive Theorie: Noun Gender Der Mann Die Frau Das Kind
Geschlecht Der Substantive Theorie: Noun Gender Der Mann Die Frau Das Kind
Geschlecht Der Substantive Theorie: Noun Gender Der Mann Die Frau Das Kind
Theorie
learning target
Aim of this section is to learn which noun has got which gender.
noun gender
der Mann male
die Frau female
das Kind neuter
rules
I want to give some examples to show that there is no logic behind the gender in German. Let's have a look at
the three words: man, woman and girl.
That means the grammatical gender in German has often nothing to do with the biological gender. A second
example is the word ocean in German. We've got three different words to describe it:
That's why we always learn the article together with the noun. See the article as part of the noun and not as an
extra word.
Nevertheless, I'd like to give you some rules which might help to remember which is the correct gender.
2. occupations and nationalities when you referring to a male person are male
1. all nouns ending with -heit, -keit, -schaft, -tt, -ung are female
2. all nouns ending with -ik, -ade, -age, -enz, -ette, -ine, -ion, -ur are female
6. most nouns ending with -ei, -ie, -ive, itis, isse are female
6. most nouns ending with -tum, -ment, -um, -ium, -nis are neuter
7. most nouns starting with "Ge" and ending with "e" are neuter