I have written about compound nouns before in posts like Lost German compound nouns found after long search, Handschuhe – Gloves or Are you a ‘Muffel’? but I wrote them to show you the variety of compound nouns. In this blog post I’m going to answer the question: How do you determine the gender of … Read more
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I might get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. When new students who are beginners learn about gender in German, it usually doesn’t take long before somebody asks “How come a girl is neuter in German?”They are puzzled … Read more
Sadly, it doesn’t work anymore and looks like they won’t be any updates either. Here is another free resource well worth exploring: Genusly, a google chrome add-on. Just go to www.genusly.com and download the chrome extension, then go to your gmail or outlook and start writing an email in German. You’ll find that suddenly your … Read more
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I might get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. Most English speakers struggle with the concept of different genders. In English everything is ‘the’ and all of a sudden it needs to be converted into ‘der, die, das’ … Read more
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