{"id":74,"date":"2009-05-18T00:28:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T05:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T13:43:36","slug":"neuter-nouns-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/neuter-nouns-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuter Nouns in German"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we get to the neuter nouns. Look out for these endings, they just might be neuter:<\/p>\n<p>-chen : <strong>das M\u00e4rchen<\/strong> (fairy tale)<\/p>\n<p>-um : <strong>das Zentrum<\/strong> (center)<\/p>\n<p>-lein : <strong>das Fr\u00e4ulein<\/strong> (Miss)<\/p>\n<p>-o : <strong>das Auto<\/strong> (car)<\/p>\n<p>-ment : <strong>das Instrument<\/strong> (instrument)<\/p>\n<p>-nis : <strong>das Vers\u00e4umnis<\/strong> (neglect)<\/p>\n<p>-il : <strong>das Ventil<\/strong> (valve)<\/p>\n<p>-ma : <strong>das Drama<\/strong> (drama)<\/p>\n<p>-ing : <strong>das Meeting<\/strong> (meeting)<\/p>\n<p>Now here are the group of nouns that indicate the noun is neuter:<\/p>\n<p>1) young persons : <strong>das Baby<\/strong> (baby)<\/p>\n<p>2) place names : <strong>das Berlin<\/strong> (Berlin)<\/p>\n<p>3) Names of hotels, cafes and theaters : <strong>das Hilton<\/strong> (Hilton)<\/p>\n<p>4) Names of elements and chemicals : <strong>das Aluminium<\/strong> (alumininum)<\/p>\n<p>5) Names of colors used as nouns : <strong>das Rot<\/strong> (red)<\/p>\n<p>6) Infinitives used as nouns : <strong>das Essen<\/strong> (eating)<\/p>\n<p>7) Nouns starting with ge : <strong>das Gespr\u00e4ch<\/strong> (conversation)<\/p>\n<p>8) Diminutives : <strong>das M\u00e4nnlein<\/strong> (little man)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we get to the neuter nouns. Look out for these endings, they just might be neuter: -chen : das M\u00e4rchen (fairy tale) -um : das Zentrum (center) -lein : das Fr\u00e4ulein (Miss) -o : das Auto (car) -ment : das Instrument (instrument) -nis : das Vers\u00e4umnis (neglect) -il : das Ventil (valve) -ma&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/neuter-nouns-german\/\">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":[971],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-language","tag-neuter-nouns"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}