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I’ve found that reapproaching language when things don’t make sense to be very valuable. Gender in German, for instance. It seems to be completely arbitrary sa

I’ve found that reapproaching language when things don’t make sense to be very valuable. Gender in German, for instance. It seems to be completely arbitrary save for one detail: whichever “sounds” best. I compare this to using “a/an” in English (albeit the rules in English are somewhat more “strict” in this regard.)

mejutoco 6y ago
There a re a few heuristics for German that are very useful. I had this problem myself and researched it deeply in this article (full disclosure: own website) https://mejuto.co/statistical-grammar-guessing-a-german-nouns-gender/ https://mejuto.co/statistical-grammar-guessing-a-german-noun...