Genus: Hints on Gender

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Hints on gender

MÄNNLICH - der

Always MASCULINE (der/ein):

* Days, months, and seasons. The one exception is das Frühjahr, another word for der Frühling, spring.
* Points of the compass, map locations and winds.
* Precipitation.
* Names of cars and trains
* Words ending in -ismus.
* Words ending in -ner.


Usually MASCULINE (der/ein):

* Agents (people who do something), most occupations and nationalities.
* Nouns ending in -er, when referring to people (but die Jungfer, die Mutter, die Schwester, die Tochter, das Fenster).

WEIBLICH - die (pron. DEE)

Always FEMININE (die/eine):

* Nouns ending in the following suffixes: -heit, -keit, -tät, -ung, -schaft.
* Nouns ending in -ie.
* Nouns ending in -ik.
* Nouns ending in -nis.
* Borrowed (foreign) nouns ending in: -ade, -age, -anz, -enz, -ette, -ine, -ion, -tur.
* Cardinal numbers.

Usually FEMININE (die/eine):

* Nouns ending in -in that pertain to female people, occupations, nationalities.
* Most nouns ending in -e (but der Deutsche, das Ensemble, der Friede, der Löwe, der Junge, der Name, das Ende, das Gemälde)
* Nouns ending in -ei (but das Ei, der Papagei).

SÄCHLICH - das

Always NEUTER (das/ein):

* Nouns ending in -chen or -lein.
* Infinitives used as nouns (gerunds).
* Names of colors used as nouns: das Blau, das Rot (blue, red)

Usually NEUTER (das/ein):

* Geographic place names; towns, countries, continents (but learn non-das countries, such as: der Irak, der Jemen, die Schweiz, die Türkei, die USA [plur.])