Nouns in German

In German each and every noun has a grammatical gender.
We have to distinguish masculine, feminine and neuter German nouns.
As this is very different from English, we strongly advise you:

Please:
Whenever you learn a new German noun, look up its gender and learn both by heart.
The easiest way to do this, is to combine the noun with its definite article.

Example:
burglar – der Einbrecher (masculine)
friendship – die Freundschaft (feminine)
parliament – das Parlament (neuter)

We want to provide you with some rules of thumb that will help you to find out about the gender of German nouns:

Rules for telling grammatical gender in German nouns:
masculine nouns	feminine nouns	neuter nouns
grammatical gender = natural gender
ending in: -er -en -m -ig -ling	ending in: -e -ei -keit -heit -schaft -ung	ending in: -ment -nis -tum -um
loanwords ending in: -or -ismus -ist	loanwords ending in: -ät -ik -ion -ie -ur -enz	diminutive forms ending in: -chen -lein

German Grammar

Introduction

Grammar at a glance

Articles

Article

Definite Article

Definite Article-Usage

Indefinite Article

Indefinite Article-Usage

Omitting the article

Nouns

Adjectives & Adverbs

Declension of adjectives

...following the definite article

...following the indefinite article

...without article

Comparison

Verbs

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Possessive pronouns

Reflexive pronouns

Interrogative pronouns

Relative pronouns

Word order & Sentences

Negating German phrases

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