Gender

der, die, das – how can I learn German gender… like… ever

Hello everyone, and welcome… uh… here. Today is not going to be a Word of the Day, neither will I discuss grammar issues other things. A few days ago a user posted a comment explaining a method for learning the German noun gender… you know.. linguists call it the “der, die, das – thing”… so…I started reading the comment and I thought “… lalala gotta check my Facebook next, maybe there’ll be someth… wait … wait…  this is great… this is such a good idea… oh man, best gender learning advice ever!” The method the user suggested seems so cool and useful to me that I finally decided to share it with all of you and I’ll add some other tricks that I know of. So… German Gender is one of the things that frustrates learners right from the get go. The average human being has one gender… maybe 2.But 3? That would be really confusing. But German doesn’t care. German boasts its 3 genders and shows no sign whatsoever of dropping one. But the biggest problem is actually that the grammatical gender of something has NOTHING to do with what it is and also it has NOTHING to do … <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/gender/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a> <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/gender/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

German Noun Gender – A learner’s story

Hello everony, and welcome to your favorite German learning site ever. And no, everony is not a mistake. It’s Italian based slang term meaning friends or guys. And it’s also a type of pasta. Everoni with butter and parmeson… soooo tasty. Yeah, I bet you can tell I am in nonsense mode today. But no reason to worry that the article is rife with nonsense. Because it’s actually not mine :). A few years ago, back before the Corona stuff and all, we had a guest here. Slavica, an actual studied linguist told us a bit about collocations in German. You everony (guys) seemed to have enjoyed it, and so we decided to do it again. Today, she will talk a bit about the elephant in the room of this blog… German gender. I barely ever talk about it. But it’s there, and it’s important. She’ll share a bit about what it is, a few rules,  and a couple of her learning tricks that she used when learning German. So without any further ago… have fun :) *** Thinking about German Gender (by Slavica) Once upon a time, there was the mighty Mr. Sun who lived up in the sky … <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/gender/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a> <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/gender/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

German Noun Gender – With Data Analysis

Table of ContentsGerman Noun Gender and Big Data (by Excel-Man)BIG DATAThe resultsTable CComments and Questions Hello everyone, And welcome to a a very special episode, because today, I actually have a guest. A while back someone sent me a really interesting email. His day name is Emmanuel Haton, but I’ll refer to him with his secret identity…. Excel-Man. He had done some serious number crunching on German noun gender and I found his work so interesting that I absolutely had to share that with you.   Using a giant database of German nouns and their usage frequency, Excel-Man used his superpower to check for trends between endings and gender and calculated how accurate this rule of thumb is if you just follow it blindly. And he didn’t stop there. Then, he collected the most common exceptions to the particular rule of thumb and then calculated the accuracy again. And it’s all weighted by frequency, mind you. So if 99 of 100 words follow a certain pattern but that one exception is super common, it’ll increase the accuracy quite a bit. And to top it all off, it even accounts for compounds. So if die Sicht was an exception for instance, its … <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/gender/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a> <a href="https://yourdailygerman.com/meaning/gender/">Dive in <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>