I'm learning German grammar at the moment.
From what I can tell, there are three genders. Each noun has it's own gender; male, female, neuter.
Easy for King and Queen, then 'girl' is neutral. So you have to learn it for most words.
The gender changes which word you use with it, e.g. the thing, a thing, which thing, this thing etc.
So for the you have Der Die or Das depending on whether it's male, female or neutral.
But the word also changes according to whether the noun is singular or plural, or which case it is; nominative, accusative, genitive or dative. Case is determined whether the noun is being acted on directly, indirectly, owned by, or via a recipient.
But the Germans don't come up with an entirely different word each time, they re-use words from different genders and cases.
And quite often using the correct gender and case is the only way to determine the meaning of the entire sentence and it can be a single letter different each time.
And the way verbs end changes accordingly as well.
Oh and they also use the same word for she and they.
From what I can tell, there are three genders. Each noun has it's own gender; male, female, neuter.
Easy for King and Queen, then 'girl' is neutral. So you have to learn it for most words.
The gender changes which word you use with it, e.g. the thing, a thing, which thing, this thing etc.
So for the you have Der Die or Das depending on whether it's male, female or neutral.
But the word also changes according to whether the noun is singular or plural, or which case it is; nominative, accusative, genitive or dative. Case is determined whether the noun is being acted on directly, indirectly, owned by, or via a recipient.
But the Germans don't come up with an entirely different word each time, they re-use words from different genders and cases.
And quite often using the correct gender and case is the only way to determine the meaning of the entire sentence and it can be a single letter different each time.
And the way verbs end changes accordingly as well.
Oh and they also use the same word for she and they.
