{"id":3341,"date":"2012-01-18T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=3341"},"modified":"2017-11-14T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T14:42:55","slug":"weibliche-substantive-im-deutschen-erkennen-teil-3-%e2%80%93-detecting-german-feminine-nouns-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/weibliche-substantive-im-deutschen-erkennen-teil-3-%e2%80%93-detecting-german-feminine-nouns-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weibliche Substantive im Deutschen erkennen: Teil 3 \u2013 Detecting German feminine nouns: part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why are some nouns in German masculine, others feminine, and still others neuter? I am probably not the only one who is asking this question. And to make things worse: there isn\u2019t any logical explanation for that. I pondered over that question quite a long time to give you, at least, a more or less satisfactory answer.<\/p>\n

I think you can only understand the right to exist of different gendered nouns when you see the German language in a greater context. Remember that the German language modifies nouns according to grammar cases (nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative). These modifications predominately manifest in the parts of speech (articles, pronouns, etc.) that precede nouns rather than in any particular case ending of the noun itself (except for the genitive case of masculine and neuter nouns). These cases endings are consistent and are to be found in all parts of speech. For example, nominative \u201cdie Frau\u201d (woman) has the genitive case ending \u2013r: der<\/strong> Frau (of the woman), meiner <\/strong>Frau (of my wife), etc. What I want to say is that these case endings are nothing else than a kind of simplification of the speech flow. It is indeed more strenuous to utter, for example, \u2018des Fraus\u2019 or \u2018meines Fraus\u2019. That is, every language has underlying rules that determine how sounds have to be combined to form words and phrases. Consequently, all German case endings are simply the outcome of language use or applied speech, so to speak. Anyway, let\u2019s start with today\u2019s lesson on feminine nouns and how you can detect them.<\/p>\n

Names of rivers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most nouns that denote rivers are feminine in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
die Alster – Alster<\/p>\n

die Donau \u2013 Danube<\/p>\n

die Elbe \u2013 Elbe<\/p>\n

die Ems \u2013 Ems<\/p>\n

die Fulda \u2013 Fulda<\/p>\n

die Havel \u2013 Havel<\/td>\n

die Isar \u2013 Isar<\/p>\n

die Mosel \u2013 Mosel<\/p>\n

die Nei\u00dfe \u2013 Neisse<\/p>\n

die Oder \u2013 Oder<\/p>\n

die Weser \u2013 Weser<\/p>\n

die Wolga \u2013 Volga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Why are some nouns in German masculine, others feminine, and still others neuter? I am probably not the only one who is asking this question. And to make things worse: there isn\u2019t any logical explanation for that. I pondered over that question quite a long time to give you, at least, a more or less…<\/p>\n

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