{"id":70,"date":"2009-05-09T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=70"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:44:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:44:27","slug":"german-masculine-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-masculine-nouns\/","title":{"rendered":"German Masculine Nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every German noun is either masculine, feminine, or neuter. It&#8217;s easy to figure out a German noun just by looking at it, because all German nouns are capitalized. Sometimes, it&#8217;s obvious as to whether a noun is feminine, masculine or neuter. Take for example, (<strong>der Vater<\/strong>) father. Other times there are no logical connections between the gender of the noun and its meaning (<strong>das M\u00e4dchen<\/strong>) girl.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the endings of a noun can help you determine whether a noun is masculine, feminine, or neuter. This isn&#8217;t 100% reliable, but it may be a good place to start; especially if you have absolutely no clue about the gender of a noun. Today we&#8217;re just going to look at masculine nouns. You&#8217;ll see &#8220;der&#8221; before the noun. The &#8220;der&#8221; means &#8220;the&#8221; in English. Der is a<strong> bestimmter Artikel<\/strong> or a definite article.<\/p>\n<p>Nouns ending in -or : Ex: (<strong>der Motor<\/strong>) engine<\/p>\n<p>-ismus : (<strong>der Kommunismus<\/strong>) communism<\/p>\n<p>-ling : (<strong>der Liebling<\/strong>) darling<\/p>\n<p>-ner : (<strong>der Schaffner<\/strong>) conductor (as in a train conductor)<\/p>\n<p>-ich : (<strong>der Teppich<\/strong>) carpet<\/p>\n<p>-ig : (<strong>der Honig<\/strong>) honey<\/p>\n<p>-ast : (<strong>der Palast<\/strong>) palace<\/p>\n<p>-ant (<strong>der Konsonant<\/strong>) consonant<\/p>\n<p>There are also groups of nouns that can help you determine whether a noun is masculine:<\/p>\n<p>Dates, Months, Seasons : Ex: (<strong>der August<\/strong>) August<\/p>\n<p>Names of Cars : (<strong>der Mercedes<\/strong>) Mercedes<\/p>\n<p>Compass Directions : (<strong>der S\u00fcd<\/strong>) south<\/p>\n<p>Precipitation\u00a0: (<strong>der Regen<\/strong>) rain<\/p>\n<p>Drinks : (<strong>der Schnaps<\/strong>) Schnaps<\/p>\n<p>Occupations : (<strong>der Student<\/strong>) student<\/p>\n<p>Nationality : (<strong>der Deutsche<\/strong>) German person<\/p>\n<p>Once again, this grouping isn&#8217;t 100% reliable, but it can serve as a general guideline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every German noun is either masculine, feminine, or neuter. It&#8217;s easy to figure out a German noun just by looking at it, because all German nouns are capitalized. Sometimes, it&#8217;s obvious as to whether a noun is feminine, masculine or neuter. Take for example, (der Vater) father. Other times there are no logical connections between&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/german-masculine-nouns\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[966],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-language","tag-masculine-nouns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8834,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/8834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}