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Don't loanwords auf Deutsch tend to end up with "das" as the prefix? Das Restaurant etc. I figured blog would be a loanword in German also?
by EdwardDiego 8y ago
Don't loanwords auf Deutsch tend to end up with "das" as the prefix? Das Restaurant etc. I figured blog would be a loanword in German also?
- onli 8y agoThe moment a word is used as a german word by a german it does not really matter anymore where it's from, the usual mechanisms that specify gender apply. Which are the few fixed rules, then mostly "how do others speak", maybe a bit "how does the word sound". That's how foreign words become german words. There is no rule that loanwords end up as neutrum: Die Allee, die Paella, der Computer, der Laptop are just a few counter examples.
- wolfgke 8y ago> Don't loanwords auf Deutsch tend to end up with "das" as the prefix? Das Restaurant etc. No. For example "Kiwi" originally comes from Maori language. In German, it is "der Kiwi" (the bird) and "die Kiwi" (the fruit). No neutral genus. In this case, the genus even has importance what the word means - it is not uncommon in German that using different genera for the same noun is there to distinguish different meanings. On the website https://www.cafe-lingua.de/deutsche-grammatik/nomen-mit-mehreren-bedeutungen.php https://www.cafe-lingua.de/deutsche-grammatik/nomen-mit-mehr... some further examples for this are listed. So always learn the genus properly.