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You can very often guess the gender of a word in german using some heuristics. For instance, anything ending in -heit is feminine, and -chen neutral. I wrote an
by mejutoco 5y ago
You can very often guess the gender of a word in german using some heuristics. For instance, anything ending in -heit is feminine, and -chen neutral.
I wrote an elaborate analysis os these heuristics (if someone is into this kind of thing) https://mejuto.co/statistical-grammar-guessing-a-german-nouns-gender/ https://mejuto.co/statistical-grammar-guessing-a-german-noun...
- zvr 5y agoThanks for this link; it was very interesting! But you should take into account that some rules are more general expressions of others. For example, in your penultimate "(recommended)" table, there is no point in having both "-hen" and "-chen" for neutral, as the latter is a specialization of the former. Same for "-ung" and "-rung"/"-tung" in feminine.
- mejutoco 5y agoThanks! I will take a look. There is room for improvement with the repetitions, as you say.
- wink 5y agoBut then you need people to grasp that the suffixes you present are suffixes and where to split the word Holzscheit, Lenkdrachen, ... ;)
- mejutoco 5y agoThat is a fine point :) It is never 100%, agree.