> 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 Germ

> 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.