• Ravi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It’s not that hard the article corresponds to the gender of the noune like “der Mann” for male, “die Frau” for female or “das Brot” for neutral. Oh and there are 500 exceptions to that rule, because why should natural be easy and follow a comprehensive set of rules.

    Most confused words: “der Bus” (the bus, clearly male…) and “das Mädchen”(the girl, because girls are definitely not female…)

    • LwL@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Das Mädchen is actually easy as it is a diminuitive which are always neutral (granted, no one uses the root word anymore so that may be hard to identify in this case).

      Outside of rare cases like that there are no actual rules, only things that can help guess, and anyone saying otherwise is simply wrong.