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[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Me as a German wondering if it's the same or different than in my language.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Luckily, for washing machine it's the same (female) but with others like sun, moon, or table we're not so lucky. And German having three genders for words and french only two often makes things more complicated.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Seems like both?

le lave-linge / la machine à laver

and

die Waschmaschine

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Idk we can do this too, der Waschautomat, less common of course but..

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Is there a rule to find the gender in German or do you just have to remember it for each word?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

There are some, but many nouns you just have to remember. Diminuitives are neutral, living beings commonly use their biological gender. There are many exeptions, but knowing the origin of them helps (e.g. girl -> das Mädchen is a dimiuitive of maid -> die Maid)

It helps reading books or watching shows/movies in german to get a feel for the gender of nouns.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hopefully somebody can give you a better answer, but being a native speaker, I’ve never really thought about it. I can’t say anything comes to me as obviously explaining the genders of different words.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Also German is quite systematic in its naming of things (surprise surprise), so specific names have the same gender as the more 'generic' root word for the thing

[-] Klear 2 points 4 months ago

It's frustratingly different.

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