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- "The man reads the newspaper."
"The man reads the newspaper."
Translation:Der Mann liest die Zeitung.
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Nope, wish it were that easy. Every noun has a gender and they are not intuitive. Best of luck.
what kind of 25th century progressive crap is the germans trying to pull by saying newspapers are feminine
Make a list with three columns: masc, fem, neuter. Write every word in the appropriate column and try to find the plural form too. Der Mann (Männer), die Frau (Frauen), das Kind (Kinder) etc. Look also up the discussion on gender and plural.
You used the ich form "lese" instead of the er/sie/es form "liest". Der Mann liest die Zeitung. so "the man" is the same as er?
So, "Die" is used in the cases of feminine nouns such as "woman" and "girl", pronouns like "we" and "they", and plural neutral nouns such as "children". "Der" is used in the case of singular masculine nouns such as "boy" and "man". "Das" is used in the more uncommon case of singular neutral nouns like "child" or "book". Please correct me if I forgot anything or got anything wrong.
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Mädchen [girl] is actually neuter, for some reason. Yet newspaper is feminine and skirt is masculine
Help! I thought that 'Zeitung' is masc nouns because in the previous exercises we put 'Eine' before Zeitung which I understand that comes with masculine nouns, but now it's come with a 'Die' that comes with Feminine. What is going one? :(
Eine would be feminine. ein (or einen for accusative) is masculine. I hope I'm right on the masculine! Zeitung is feminine
Both and more. Sie also mean you, formal, singular and plural but it is always capitalized. sie can also be capitalized if they begin a sentence, so they can be tricky sometimes
All this die and das and den... really screwing me over. I just guess now and get there in the end.
same but i also have yo be judge judy and say AM I FOOL TO YOU ps i am a fool
i know AND I DONT IDERSTAND WHY IT IS SO MEAN ABOUT MY ANSWERS + I DONT UNDER STAND HOW TRUMP IS A IDIET!!!!!!!!!!!
