There are also strong tendencies for german nouns in the basic form: First step is to discriminate between words of one and words of two syllables. The bi-syllabic nouns consist of one long(pronounced) and one short(unpronounced) syllable. The second (short and unpronounced) syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its noun ending. -e --> feminine: die Har-fe, die Blu-me, die Do-se, die Kat-ze, die Bir-ne... -er --> masculine: der Ha-fer, der Ei-mer, der Be-cher, der Stec-ker, der Pfef-fer, der Kel-ler... -en --> masculine: der Ha-fen, der Bal-ken, der Re-gen, der Schin-ken, der Brun-nen... -el--> mostly masculine: der Dac-kel, der Krei-sel, der Pin-sel, der Schlüs-sel.... here the plural form doesn´t change (one Pinsel, lots of Pinsel) but if the plural form is formed with additional "-n" it´s feminine: die In-sel (lots of In-seln), die Windel (lots of Win-deln), die Ta-fel (lots of Ta-feln).. Mono-syllabic nouns consist of one very long syllable. They are mostly masculine, but the plural form is decisive. In the plural form this very long syllable splits is one long and one short syllable. The second syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its plural ending: -er --> neuter: das Kind (lots of Kin-der), das Kleid (lots of Klei-der), das Schloss (lots of Schlös-ser)... -e plus vowel change in the stem (Umlaut = vowel letter with two dots above) --> masculine: der Stuhl (lots of Stüh-le), der Wolf (lots of Wöl-fe), der Topf (lots of Töp-fe) -en --> feminine: die Bahn (lots of Bah-nen), die Fahrt (lots of Fahr-ten)...
Your approach to teaching is simple and precise that everyone learning will easily grasp the meaning of what you're talking about. Keep on teaching the world. I'm very grateful for all your lessons. Congratulations....
There are also strong tendencies for german nouns in the basic form: First step is to discriminate between words of one and words of two syllables. The bi-syllabic nouns consist of one long(pronounced) and one short(unpronounced) syllable. The second (short and unpronounced) syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its noun ending. -e --> feminine: die Har-fe, die Blu-me, die Do-se, die Kat-ze, die Bir-ne... -er --> masculine: der Ha-fer, der Ei-mer, der Be-cher, der Stec-ker, der Pfef-fer, der Kel-ler... -en --> masculine: der Ha-fen, der Bal-ken, der Re-gen, der Schin-ken, der Brun-nen... -el--> mostly masculine: der Dac-kel, der Krei-sel, der Pin-sel, der Schlüs-sel.... here the plural form doesn´t change (one Pinsel, lots of Pinsel) but if the plural form is formed with additional "-n" it´s feminine: die In-sel (lots of In-seln), die Windel (lots of Win-deln), die Ta-fel (lots of Ta-feln).. Mono-syllabic nouns consist of one very long syllable. They are mostly masculine, but the plural form is decisive. In the plural form this very long syllable splits is one long and one short syllable. The second syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its plural ending: -er --> neuter: das Kind (lots of Kin-der), das Kleid (lots of Klei-der), das Schloss (lots of Schlös-ser)... -e plus "Umlaut" (vowel letter with two dots above) --> masculine: der Stuhl (lots of Stüh-le), der Wolf (lots of Wöl-fe), der Topf (lots of Töp-fe) -en --> feminine: die Bahn (lots of Bah-nen), die Fahrt (lots of Fahr-ten)...
I wonder if Miss Laura is German??!! I am half German, and I love love love organizing my learning into groups. So, before viewing this video, I had already noticed the Months & Seasons are all masculine nouns, and I created a group just for them! Now I know them all with maybe 5 minutes memorization (only wish my pronunciation would be that easy!!).
I'm happy that I came across your channel. You're good at this. As an anglophone who's studied French, I have no problem with French noun gender. It's because I have heard the language enough now that I can hear the music. I expect that I will pick up the music of German as I need to.
As someone who speaks fluently French and Arabic besides english, it helps a lot to understand better German grammar as I think from my experience German grammar is much more similar to French and vocab more to English which is helping me with my learning so far (A2) and you Laura are simply amazing how simple you explain this. Vielen dank! ❤️👌🏻
I have a question here. I realized that we may not use _dass_ necessarily For example: -Ich hoffe, ich *kann* morgen kommen. -Ich hoffe, dass ich morgen kommen *kann* . What's the difference between these two sentences? How do we know which one to use and where? I really appreciate your answer.
Sorry for the delay! They are both correct sentences and it would just depend on the context you’re using them in. With a more formal or written setting, it would be better to use the second option with ‘dass’. In an informal/spoken context it would be appropriate to use the first option. -Lindsay, GwL Team
in portuguese, my native language, we have genders for nouns as well and it was so confusing because in portuguese, for example: table is feminine " a mesa" but in german is masculine "der tisch" but now you explained things go automatic in my brain, that helped a lot
Great advice, Laura! Decades ago, when I was learning German, I actually took 3 smallish notebooks (one yellow, one red and one green) and assigned the "der nouns" to the green notebook, the "die nouns" to the yellow notebook and the "das nouns" to the red notebook. I bought a small German dictionary and painstakingly wrote all of the masculine der nouns in the green notebook; the feminine nouns in the yellow notebook and the neuter nouns in the red notebook. Once I had done that, I "lightly-colored" each noun with colored pencils corresponding to the color of their notebook covers. I would practice learning German nouns genders that way. :-)
Tysm this is so helpful I was going to go insane from trying to recall each noun’s “the” but I can just memorise a few ending to be almost always right!!
Excellent and inspiring. The information on this video is very helpful. I have been stumbling through, learning der, die, das by memory. This helps to put structure to it. The colour coding is a neat memory aid. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for these videos, the didactic skills you have are amazing. Everything feels so much better when is not just hardcoded rules waiting to be memorized but there's an invitation for your brain to understand what's going on and play with it.
Laura, You’re very very knowledgeable in German! Your lessons will be highly effective in my review of, and growth in, German language skills. I HOPE the following may be useful to German language learners. When I first studied German in high school, I did not even think to use colors to help me associate masculine, feminine, or neuter. However, about 37 years later, when I studied Hebrew, I wrote feminine nouns and feminine verb endings with pink ink, and masculine nouns and masculine verb endings with blue ink. I used purple to write endings that applied to group endings which would include male AND female, because pink and blue make PURPLE!! 😄 There is no neuter in Hebrew, so I didn’t have to think about it. I also incorporated the MONTESSORI grammar symbols to mark my vocabulary so that it would remind me whether the word was a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, an article, pronoun, preposition, interjection, or a conjunction. Some people may NOT want to be this detailed, but it may help those who like to be very INTERACTIVE with their learning! 😄 So NOW, for German review of NEUTER nouns , I think I will use pencil since it looks GREY, or BLACK ink for neuter! Thank you again, for your excellent teaching!! You are helping many people! All the best!!!
It would be interesting to apply artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to finding grammatical language patterns. The data is widely available and for sites like Kaggle, many would likely contribute. You are an outstanding teacher. I recently learned the weak and strong endings for determiners and adjectives and found your content the best approach. Gut gemacht!
Ms. I have huge respect for you for this lesson. That how can learner define which Article can be uses where. Because Deutsch has many Noun eords. Dank schon.
Learning noun endings and groups is going to give you the most assistance. Any noun that falls outside those categories will ultimately need to be memorized. -Nicole, GwL Team
Hello Laura, Thanks for sharing these videos. I want to learn German but want to start with the first video. Could you please put the videos with a sequence it will help us to go through a sequence and learn step by step.
FYI: In the German grammar text I have … which is written _in German_ for Germans … they're not called "noun genders", they're called "noun _Genus."_ Which, think about it, makes more sense: "Genus" being Latin for "category" or "group". "Genus" can _also_ be translated as "gender," but it's pretty far down the list. So don't think, "Noun Gender", think: "Noun Genus" … i.e. Noun Category.
Well, I have been watching some videos about this topic and I think this video is the best one which clearly tells the topic without leaving a question mark. I saw noun endings method but didn't really understand till I watch this video. I will recommend this video to my German learner friends too. Thank you so much for your great effort.
It is a feminine noun. This is where declensions and cases come into play. It is a feminine noun being used in the dative case, and that is why it is using 'der' instead of 'die.' I teach in depth about declensions and the case system in my courses. You can get started here for free! germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
Yup, der Apfel is an exception to the rule. When we are looking at noun groups or endings, we're looking for the gender that the majority will take. The majority of fruit will be feminine, so if you have to make a guess, choose feminine. That means there can still be some exceptions, like Apfel.
Hi Laura, this video was really clear about der, die, das. I was confused when I read das madchen in german, thinking why are the girls (clearly feminine) associated with the neuter "das", which thanks to you, I know now. But in 11:22, can you please mention which rule here gets precedence when a noun is for example, masculine according to ending, but not masculine according to the noun group?
It's because of the supreme strength of the neuter -chen / -lein endings, which outweighs even 'intuitive gender'! The basic gender hierarchy (I'm not including some nuances here) is: -chen / -lein intuitive gender most endings (e.g. -ling, -ung, -ment) the remaining noun groups (e.g. animals, plants, weather, fabrics, etc.) the weakest endings (e.g. -a, -om, -al, etc.)
I can’t understand why language teachers don’t think that WORDS that are not of common use should not be placed as example, let alone to be memorised. Here you are one: der Fäustling. When was the last time that you used a mitten in a day to day conversation? Hope you get this tip for your superb videos teaching. Language is communication , so let’s have useful vocabulary at all time.
der BMW or die BMW you wrote both of this in your web site? of course masculine one is for car other one is other carriers but what is the diffrence if I mean the brand in general. which one should I choose?
When referring to the BMW brand in general, you would typically use "der BMW" because "BMW" (Bayerische Motoren Werke) is a masculine noun, and it is common to use the definite article "der" with masculine nouns in German. So, if you're talking about the BMW brand itself, you would say: - "Der BMW ist eine bekannte Automarke." (BMW is a well-known car brand.) The use of "die BMW" would not be appropriate when referring to the brand as a whole. It might be used in contexts where you are specifying a particular model or referring to several BMW cars collectively, but when discussing the brand itself, "der BMW" is the correct choice. Hope this helps! - Nicole, GwL Team
Es ist sehr interresant für mich, dass Sie blau als die feminine Farbe und rot als die maskuline Farbe bezeichnet haben. Zuerst dachte ich, Sie hätten das umgekehrt.
Laura picked a cool shade of blue thinking of feminine calm and red as fiery and powerful for masculine, but years in now, she does wish she had chosen differently. :) The colors are a little too enmeshed to switch now! - Nicole, GwL Team
Yeah, I had "hit the ceiling" a while ago, with minimal progress for some time now. Duolingo sucess was limited, while Rosetta stone had techical issues with no support or refuind. Truly horrible!! This is WAAYYYYY Better!!!
8:11: "das Kanada": In fact, most countries don´t use articles at all in German. No article: Kanada, Frankreich, Österreich (but historic: das Römische Reich, das Deutsche Reich), Schweden, Dänemark, Großbritannien/England, Polen, Island, Indien, China, Australien, Chile, Brasilien and more. If you talk about these countries as objects, say "das Land ....". Female article: die Türkei, die USA, die Schweiz, die Arabischen Emirate (plural), die Ukraine, die Sowjetunion, die Mongolei. Male article: der Jemen, der Tschad, der Vatikan(staat), der Iran, der Irak. Die Dominikanische Republik is female, but travel pundits have her as Domrep which goes without.
I believe I addressed this more in the video notes (look there for more info!), but yes, it is certainly the case that most the time countries would not use an article at all. But my point is that in the relatively rare instances in which we would need one, most countries would then be neuter.
If you're asking if we could use a different gender for the article (like der or das) then no. It would always be 'die'. But, there will be times where you use a different determiner (e.g. these, many, some, etc.) or no determiner at all.
!! 2 questions... what's with rolling the R's? Is that reminiscent of Nazism... or is it okay to do in Germany? Also, is pronunciation of "ich" regional? "ish" or "ich"? DANKE!
Well, Hitler definitely did have a very distinctive pronunciation pattern, but I would not consider rolling R's to have ties to Nazism. You'll find that rolling R's and the pronunciation of 'ich' is, indeed, a regional issue. :-)
I'm kinda confused. You said you'll reference a link to an article about more details, but there's no link in the description (the provided link is something else)
@@GermanwithLaura Okay, thank you so much teacher Laura. Concerning noun groups genders, I would like to hint to something important, As I see we can not depend 100 percent on the noun groups method in order to determine the right article for a group noun. For instance, animals are not all masculine even those biologically masculine ones. There are many feminine, masculine and few neutral animals so every group comes with exceptions and the same thing applies to every group so, a learner of German language must have to deal with all those exceptions too.
Hello my teacher .i hope you are great (Das ist ein auto). We have here one Subject or two subject ?I think das here is a demonstrative and Because a teacher told we have two subject( das and auto ) Thanks for responding
You are in good company, unfortunately! Most German teachers don't truly understand the depth of grammar or have studied the rules and patterns. So glad you are here! -Nicole, GwL Team
I really benefitted from your german grammar course. I also really appreciate that it was free. It has helped me develop the motivation to practice again. I'll hopefully be able to save up for your German foundations course soon! Have a lovely day :)
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Laura, You are the best German grammer teacher in TH-cam. Can't tell you enough how much helpful they are. I hope you continue doing them.
Ich denke, dass du die beste Deutschlehrerin auf TH-cam bist. Deine Webseite hat mir auch sehr viel geholfen.
now you stay germany?
There are also strong tendencies for german nouns in the basic form:
First step is to discriminate between words of one and words of two syllables.
The bi-syllabic nouns consist of one long(pronounced) and one short(unpronounced) syllable. The second (short and unpronounced) syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its noun ending.
-e --> feminine: die Har-fe, die Blu-me, die Do-se, die Kat-ze, die Bir-ne...
-er --> masculine: der Ha-fer, der Ei-mer, der Be-cher, der Stec-ker, der Pfef-fer, der Kel-ler...
-en --> masculine: der Ha-fen, der Bal-ken, der Re-gen, der Schin-ken, der Brun-nen...
-el--> mostly masculine: der Dac-kel, der Krei-sel, der Pin-sel, der Schlüs-sel.... here the plural form doesn´t change (one Pinsel, lots of Pinsel)
but if the plural form is formed with additional "-n" it´s feminine: die In-sel (lots of In-seln), die Windel (lots of Win-deln), die Ta-fel (lots of Ta-feln)..
Mono-syllabic nouns consist of one very long syllable. They are mostly masculine, but the plural form is decisive. In the plural form this very long syllable splits is one long and one short syllable. The second syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its plural ending:
-er --> neuter: das Kind (lots of Kin-der), das Kleid (lots of Klei-der), das Schloss (lots of Schlös-ser)...
-e plus vowel change in the stem (Umlaut = vowel letter with two dots above) --> masculine: der Stuhl (lots of Stüh-le), der Wolf (lots of Wöl-fe), der Topf (lots of Töp-fe)
-en --> feminine: die Bahn (lots of Bah-nen), die Fahrt (lots of Fahr-ten)...
Your approach to teaching is simple and precise that everyone learning will easily grasp the meaning of what you're talking about. Keep on teaching the world. I'm very grateful for all your lessons. Congratulations....
Your English is crystal clear so i am able to watch you at 1.75-2.00 speed without losing any meaing. thanks for that.
Seriously
I am a beginner in German and has confused to learn this, and finally found your channel. Such a piece of luck!
now?
I have taken German classes (in Germany!) up to B2.2 and have never been taught this information. Very helpful -- danke sehr!
Oh my god, right! And I thought I was an idiot for not being able to remember genders...
There are also strong tendencies for german nouns in the basic form:
First step is to discriminate between words of one and words of two syllables.
The bi-syllabic nouns consist of one long(pronounced) and one short(unpronounced) syllable. The second (short and unpronounced) syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its noun ending.
-e --> feminine: die Har-fe, die Blu-me, die Do-se, die Kat-ze, die Bir-ne...
-er --> masculine: der Ha-fer, der Ei-mer, der Be-cher, der Stec-ker, der Pfef-fer, der Kel-ler...
-en --> masculine: der Ha-fen, der Bal-ken, der Re-gen, der Schin-ken, der Brun-nen...
-el--> mostly masculine: der Dac-kel, der Krei-sel, der Pin-sel, der Schlüs-sel.... here the plural form doesn´t change (one Pinsel, lots of Pinsel)
but if the plural form is formed with additional "-n" it´s feminine: die In-sel (lots of In-seln), die Windel (lots of Win-deln), die Ta-fel (lots of Ta-feln)..
Mono-syllabic nouns consist of one very long syllable. They are mostly masculine, but the plural form is decisive. In the plural form this very long syllable splits is one long and one short syllable. The second syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its plural ending:
-er --> neuter: das Kind (lots of Kin-der), das Kleid (lots of Klei-der), das Schloss (lots of Schlös-ser)...
-e plus "Umlaut" (vowel letter with two dots above) --> masculine: der Stuhl (lots of Stüh-le), der Wolf (lots of Wöl-fe), der Topf (lots of Töp-fe)
-en --> feminine: die Bahn (lots of Bah-nen), die Fahrt (lots of Fahr-ten)...
Gern geschehen 😅
Thank you. I just started learning German on a language app and it’s a struggle without the explanation. This is very helpful and useful. 🙏
So great to hear. Thanks for being here!
Though I am an English speaker primarily, I should say you are doing so well, clear voice, and lucid explanation, just super
I wonder if Miss Laura is German??!! I am half German, and I love love love organizing my learning into groups. So, before viewing this video, I had already noticed the Months & Seasons are all masculine nouns, and I created a group just for them! Now I know them all with maybe 5 minutes memorization (only wish my pronunciation would be that easy!!).
Good organizing and memorizing!
Laura might be a very small part German, but she loves the language all the same. :)
-Nicole, GwL Team
I'm happy that I came across your channel. You're good at this.
As an anglophone who's studied French, I have no problem with French noun gender. It's because I have heard the language enough now that I can hear the music.
I expect that I will pick up the music of German as I need to.
As someone who speaks fluently French and Arabic besides english, it helps a lot to understand better German grammar as I think from my experience German grammar is much more similar to French and vocab more to English which is helping me with my learning so far (A2) and you Laura are simply amazing how simple you explain this. Vielen dank! ❤️👌🏻
I recently started learning german (A1), i just hope i would be able to make it til B2 😭
Didi you reached B2??
B2 you will still understand nothing when you visit Germany
@@danielliu9616😂😂😂
Ich frage mich dabei immer nur, ob ihr die Sprache lernt um sie tatsächlich aktiv zu sprechen oder bloß um eure oberflächlichen Tests zu bestehen..
Thank you! You will be best german language teacher in the you tube.
Best regards🙏🏽
Your teaching techniques are amazing and learned more from your website…Vielen Dank….keep it up
Thanks for checking out my content!
Wow VIELEN DANK für dieses sehr hilfreiche Video! Meine Deutschlehrer haben mir nie gesagt, dass es ein Muster gibt!
This is MARVELOUS!! I shall make my students watch this.
Thank you so much!
I have a question here. I realized that we may not use _dass_ necessarily
For example:
-Ich hoffe, ich *kann* morgen kommen.
-Ich hoffe, dass ich morgen kommen *kann* .
What's the difference between these two sentences? How do we know which one to use and where?
I really appreciate your answer.
Sorry for the delay!
They are both correct sentences and it would just depend on the context you’re using them in. With a more formal or written setting, it would be better to use the second option with ‘dass’. In an informal/spoken context it would be appropriate to use the first option.
-Lindsay, GwL Team
Great, amazing teacher! Your videos are the best I've seen so far!
in portuguese, my native language, we have genders for nouns as well and it was so confusing because in portuguese, for example: table is feminine " a mesa" but in german is masculine "der tisch" but now you explained things go automatic in my brain, that helped a lot
Laura you're top notch! I wish I had a spanish instructor that taught like you teach German 😉
I look forward to my courses with you every day🤗🎉
You’re wonderful! Not everyone’s learning style is the same. So, your information is AMAZING for me. Thank you.
You are so welcome!
Great advice, Laura! Decades ago, when I was learning German, I actually took 3 smallish notebooks (one yellow, one red and one green) and assigned the "der nouns" to the green notebook, the "die nouns" to the yellow notebook and the "das nouns" to the red notebook. I bought a small German dictionary and painstakingly wrote all of the masculine der nouns in the green notebook; the feminine nouns in the yellow notebook and the neuter nouns in the red notebook. Once I had done that, I "lightly-colored" each noun with colored pencils corresponding to the color of their notebook covers. I would practice learning German nouns genders that way. :-)
I'm so glad that color coding has also worked for you!
Tysm this is so helpful I was going to go insane from trying to recall each noun’s “the” but I can just memorise a few ending to be almost always right!!
Such a relief, right?!
@@GermanwithLaura yes!! Danke schön 😊
Finally find a channel to teach basic German, great and thanks!
Excellent and inspiring. The information on this video is very helpful. I have been stumbling through, learning der, die, das by memory. This helps to put structure to it. The colour coding is a neat memory aid. Thank you.
Thanks a lot for these videos, the didactic skills you have are amazing. Everything feels so much better when is not just hardcoded rules waiting to be memorized but there's an invitation for your brain to understand what's going on and play with it.
So glad you are enjoying Laura's videos! Thanks for being here! - Nicole, GwL Team
Finally a real language teacher that kicks ass. Hallelujah.
Haha. I do want I can.
Immer hervorragend; danke!
Laura, this is the best video I found so far on explaining noun groups and gender.
Danke!
Laura,
You’re very very knowledgeable in German! Your lessons will be highly effective in my review of, and growth in, German language skills.
I HOPE the following may be useful to German language learners.
When I first studied German in high school, I did not even think to use colors to help me associate masculine, feminine, or neuter.
However, about 37 years later, when I studied Hebrew, I wrote feminine nouns and feminine verb endings with pink ink, and masculine nouns and masculine verb endings with blue ink. I used purple to write endings that applied to group endings which would include male AND female, because pink and blue make PURPLE!! 😄 There is no neuter in Hebrew, so I didn’t have to think about it.
I also incorporated the MONTESSORI grammar symbols to mark my vocabulary so that it would remind me whether the word was a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, an article, pronoun, preposition, interjection, or a conjunction.
Some people may NOT want to be this detailed, but it may help those who like to be very INTERACTIVE with their learning! 😄
So NOW, for German review of NEUTER nouns , I think I will use pencil since it looks GREY, or BLACK ink for neuter!
Thank you again, for your excellent teaching!! You are helping many people!
All the best!!!
Great information....great delivery of it.
It would be interesting to apply artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to finding grammatical language patterns. The data is widely available and for sites like Kaggle, many would likely contribute. You are an outstanding teacher. I recently learned the weak and strong endings for determiners and adjectives and found your content the best approach. Gut gemacht!
Thanks for watching! Yes, it will interesting to see how the world of AI unfolds.
Thanks you a lot .
So useful...
Piece of advice : add some pauses when you are giving a speech
Laura, das Video ist wirklich toll! Vielen Dank!
Wow this is really interesting noun endings and noun groups! I will have to listen to your whole presentation on this one! Thanks
Hope.i can learn a German .. thank you alot
Ms. I have huge respect for you for this lesson. That how can learner define which Article can be uses where. Because Deutsch has many Noun eords.
Dank schon.
Learning noun endings and groups is going to give you the most assistance. Any noun that falls outside those categories will ultimately need to be memorized.
-Nicole, GwL Team
This makes so much more sense even for a sixth grader like me
Such a Great teacher you are God bless you ❤
I am feeling tenson about article but you make it easy danke schön
Happy to help
Blue, red and green, thanks Laura, I have started watching you on 05.11.2022 from İstanbul
REALLY HELPFUL! Vielen Dank Laura
Laura, you’re beautiful + the best teacher I’ve learnt from till now.
Thank you
Great tips as expected from the very start. Danke schön! 💐
Hello Laura, Thanks for sharing these videos. I want to learn German but want to start with the first video. Could you please put the videos with a sequence it will help us to go through a sequence and learn step by step.
I actually did a compilation video right here! :-D -> th-cam.com/video/paDNTjoWExI/w-d-xo.html
This person makes so much sense! 😊
FYI: In the German grammar text I have … which is written _in German_ for Germans … they're not called "noun genders", they're called "noun _Genus."_ Which, think about it, makes more sense: "Genus" being Latin for "category" or "group". "Genus" can _also_ be translated as "gender," but it's pretty far down the list.
So don't think, "Noun Gender", think: "Noun Genus" … i.e. Noun Category.
You are really excellent, Laura. Thank you so much for your videos. This one in particular is making my learning so much simpler!
Glad it was helpful!
Well, I have been watching some videos about this topic and I think this video is the best one which clearly tells the topic without leaving a question mark. I saw noun endings method but didn't really understand till I watch this video. I will recommend this video to my German learner friends too. Thank you so much for your great effort.
I appreciate the recommendation! :-)
Du bist sehr klug, danke sehr
Question, if feminine nouns include endings in -keit then why do we sing Der Gemutlichkeit in Ein Prosit?
It is a feminine noun. This is where declensions and cases come into play. It is a feminine noun being used in the dative case, and that is why it is using 'der' instead of 'die.'
I teach in depth about declensions and the case system in my courses. You can get started here for free!
germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
This video was super helpful!
I'm so glad!
Omg, finally someone who can make sense to the die der das problems😅tnx a lot for your videos, i will definitely try
That is absolutely great memory aids for me!! Thanks !!- from Korean beginner :)
Thank you so much, Laura. Your tip to deal with german articles are useful and much easier to apply than memorizing words.
You are a fantastic teacher. Danke!
Thank you for this video! Very helpful!
Great video! One question, if fruits are feminine, why is it Der Apfel then? Were there other exceptions?
Yup, der Apfel is an exception to the rule. When we are looking at noun groups or endings, we're looking for the gender that the majority will take. The majority of fruit will be feminine, so if you have to make a guess, choose feminine. That means there can still be some exceptions, like Apfel.
@@GermanwithLaura thank you!!
Hi Laura, I love the way you present. Do you have videos where you present in German, or predominantly in German?
Currently, my videos are geared toward helping native English speakers learn German, but this could change in the future. Thank you for watching!
What about Wolke? a cloud is a weather element.
Wolke is feminine. - Nicole, GwL Team
Associating the gender of nouns with color sounds like a great idea! I'm gonna do it. Thanks for the tips! 💯
Hi Laura, this video was really clear about der, die, das. I was confused when I read das madchen in german, thinking why are the girls (clearly feminine) associated with the neuter "das", which thanks to you, I know now.
But in 11:22, can you please mention which rule here gets precedence when a noun is for example, masculine according to ending, but not masculine according to the noun group?
It's because of the supreme strength of the neuter -chen / -lein endings, which outweighs even 'intuitive gender'!
The basic gender hierarchy (I'm not including some nuances here) is:
-chen / -lein
intuitive gender
most endings (e.g. -ling, -ung, -ment)
the remaining noun groups (e.g. animals, plants, weather, fabrics, etc.)
the weakest endings (e.g. -a, -om, -al, etc.)
Thank you for your work 💕
Thank you
Thanks! You are simply the best!) Love a bunch of super helpful advices for memorizing
THANK YOU SO MUCH !
I can’t understand why language teachers don’t think that WORDS that are not of common use should not be placed as example, let alone to be memorised. Here you are one: der Fäustling. When was the last time that you used a mitten in a day to day conversation? Hope you get this tip for your superb videos teaching. Language is communication , so let’s have useful vocabulary at all time.
I can understand your thoughts on this. It is difficult to include vocabulary that will work for everyone.
Very helpful.
and what do i do whit Bank post park....
Do you use feminim article for Apfel, orange? Die Äpfel, die orange.
der Apfel -> die Äpfel (plural)
die Orange -> die Orangen (plural)
Just remember that 'die' could be either feminine or plural. :-)
Where can I find the German Noun Gender: Your Essential Guide? I looked on your website but could not find it.
Hey there,
You can find it right here ->> germanwithlaura.com/der-die-das/
I hope that helps!
thank you Laura
Danke schön.
How do i memories ig and ich when they have the same pernonsing????
The endings of Essig and Teppich are pronounced differently IG IS hard G sound , ICHSOUND is the same sound than in Milch 😊
Hi there! Pronunciations can vary due to the region. Thanks for watching. - Nicole, GwL Team
der BMW or die BMW you wrote both of this in your web site? of course masculine one is for car other one is other carriers but what is the diffrence if I mean the brand in general. which one should I choose?
When referring to the BMW brand in general, you would typically use "der BMW" because "BMW" (Bayerische Motoren Werke) is a masculine noun, and it is common to use the definite article "der" with masculine nouns in German.
So, if you're talking about the BMW brand itself, you would say:
- "Der BMW ist eine bekannte Automarke." (BMW is a well-known car brand.)
The use of "die BMW" would not be appropriate when referring to the brand as a whole. It might be used in contexts where you are specifying a particular model or referring to several BMW cars collectively, but when discussing the brand itself, "der BMW" is the correct choice.
Hope this helps! - Nicole, GwL Team
thank you so much for the explanation. It makes sense now. @@GermanwithLaura
Es ist sehr interresant für mich, dass Sie blau als die feminine Farbe und rot als die maskuline Farbe bezeichnet haben. Zuerst dachte ich, Sie hätten das umgekehrt.
Laura picked a cool shade of blue thinking of feminine calm and red as fiery and powerful for masculine, but years in now, she does wish she had chosen differently. :) The colors are a little too enmeshed to switch now! - Nicole, GwL Team
wow that's so
efficient
What you explain is exactly how set up for failure anyone with even the midlest dyslexia.
Yeah, I had "hit the ceiling" a while ago, with minimal progress for some time now. Duolingo sucess was limited, while Rosetta stone had techical issues with no support or refuind. Truly horrible!! This is WAAYYYYY Better!!!
Could you please set automatic subtitles? Thank you.
Danke, das freut mich.
8:11: "das Kanada": In fact, most countries don´t use articles at all in German. No article: Kanada, Frankreich, Österreich (but historic: das Römische Reich, das Deutsche Reich), Schweden, Dänemark, Großbritannien/England, Polen, Island, Indien, China, Australien, Chile, Brasilien and more. If you talk about these countries as objects, say "das Land ....". Female article: die Türkei, die USA, die Schweiz, die Arabischen Emirate (plural), die Ukraine, die Sowjetunion, die Mongolei. Male article: der Jemen, der Tschad, der Vatikan(staat), der Iran, der Irak.
Die Dominikanische Republik is female, but travel pundits have her as Domrep which goes without.
I believe I addressed this more in the video notes (look there for more info!), but yes, it is certainly the case that most the time countries would not use an article at all. But my point is that in the relatively rare instances in which we would need one, most countries would then be neuter.
Keep up the good work, please👌💖🤗💐
can we say die Männer oder it can change depending the contest of the sentence?
If you're asking if we could use a different gender for the article (like der or das) then no. It would always be 'die'. But, there will be times where you use a different determiner (e.g. these, many, some, etc.) or no determiner at all.
Die Farben ist eine gut idee.
Das Wort "Idee" wird großgeschrieben, weil es ein Nomen ist. Ich würde es eher so ausdrücken: Es ist eine gute Idee, die Farben zu verwenden.
!! 2 questions... what's with rolling the R's? Is that reminiscent of Nazism... or is it okay to do in Germany? Also, is pronunciation of "ich" regional? "ish" or "ich"? DANKE!
Well, Hitler definitely did have a very distinctive pronunciation pattern, but I would not consider rolling R's to have ties to Nazism. You'll find that rolling R's and the pronunciation of 'ich' is, indeed, a regional issue. :-)
I'm kinda confused. You said you'll reference a link to an article about more details, but there's no link in the description (the provided link is something else)
Oh! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Here you go (and I'll get the description updated, too): germanwithlaura.com/noun-gender/
thank you so much!!
You are awesome Laura
pls, can someone recommend a good app that would help with words gender training and thanks
Unfortunately, there isn't one that I would personally recommend, but hopefully that will be something I might put together in the future! We'll see!
@@GermanwithLaura Okay, thank you so much teacher Laura. Concerning noun groups genders, I would like to hint to something important, As I see we can not depend 100 percent on the noun groups method in order to determine the right article for a group noun. For instance, animals are not all masculine even those biologically masculine ones. There are many feminine, masculine and few neutral animals so every group comes with exceptions and the same thing applies to every group so, a learner of German language must have to deal with all those exceptions too.
red = fire, evil, blue = water, ocean, green = park, grass ^^
So helpful
Danke schön 👍
now you are in german
Hello my teacher .i hope you are great
(Das ist ein auto). We have here one Subject or two subject ?I think das here is a demonstrative and
Because a teacher told we have two subject( das and auto )
Thanks for responding
How are these lessons different from the one you offer (for sale)?
Many of the same topics are covered, but in much greater depth and with tons of practice exercises.
Im struggling with this ://
you are godsend
My german teacher never told me this.
You are in good company, unfortunately! Most German teachers don't truly understand the depth of grammar or have studied the rules and patterns. So glad you are here!
-Nicole, GwL Team
I really benefitted from your german grammar course. I also really appreciate that it was free. It has helped me develop the motivation to practice again. I'll hopefully be able to save up for your German foundations course soon! Have a lovely day :)