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> On the same page: "All nouns that end in –ei, –heit, –ie, –in, –keit, –schaft, –tät, –ung are feminine." I would hazard the guess that, in this explanation,
by bald 7y ago
> On the same page: "All nouns that end in –ei, –heit, –ie, –in, –keit, –schaft, –tät, –ung are feminine."
I would hazard the guess that, in this explanation, the author refers to syllables and not just a combination of letters.
The counter-examples you gave all end in syllables different from those mentioned by the author:
der Brei - one syllable / das Aller-lei / das Ben-zin
- filmor 7y agoIt's not that simple, I guess this refers to things like "Mongolei", "Spielerei" etc. where -ei will also never be a syllable on its own. You'll have to put a lot more context in for a rule like this.
- ianleeclark 7y agoThe negation of a rule or of qualities is an effective language acquisition technique: a tree is not a bush, they are different in X ways; a book is not a magazine, they are different in X ways.