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I am bad with theory, so please bear with me. What I meant was das Ma:dchen die fru:shtuck It is not just remember the noun (apologies) but also the gender as
by thewhitetulip 9y ago
I am bad with theory, so please bear with me.
What I meant was das Ma:dchen die fru:shtuck
It is not just remember the noun (apologies) but also the gender associated with the noun. To exacerbate the matter, there are millions of rules and then there are thousands of exceptions to those rules.
But then again, the language is intuitive :)
I just happened to love Japanese because I want to go to Japan soon and that's why I gave up German, but I will learn it in the next five years
- bipson 9y agoOh, yeah, the nouns are gendered - everything is gendered! And it must be memorized, there is no rule. Same is true for all Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, etc.) AFAIK. Btw. it is "das Frühstück" as well. But you get laughed at when saying "das Cola" in Germany, but yelled at being a stupid German when saying "die Cola" in Vienna. Which makes the whole thing great, because it obviously annoys us a lot, both is correct though, and it totally doesn't make a difference what the gender of the thing is :) We have lot's of words where the "Duden", the official dictionary has an "Austrian also: ..." alternative gender. And then there are colloquial habits that are utterly out of spec which make me furious to be honest. Who the hell thinks "das Teller" sounds right?!
- thewhitetulip 9y agohehehe. I learnt German for nearly one year and though the theory was huge, I didn't learn it well. I'll ping you up when I resume my studies. My dream holiday destination is Templehoff airport. (which I assume has been flattened to build a parking lot)
- wibr 9y agoNot a parking lot, but a park: https://www.visitberlin.de/en/tempelhofer-feld-tempelhof-field https://www.visitberlin.de/en/tempelhofer-feld-tempelhof-fie...
- thewhitetulip 9y agoThis is awesome!