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  • JenetrixJenetrix@tech.lgbt
    Apr 8, 2026, 10:46 AM

    me: *struggling for 2 months to rember articles for words in german*
    teacher: "oh by the way if a word ends in e then 98% of the time its article is die, and also if it ends in ...ung its also a die"
    me: *barely struggling to contain my rage at them waiting this long to tell me there is actually easy ways to learn and remember this shit*

    this is the way my autistic brain actually learns things, why am i just learning about this now!?

    what other easy shortcut tricks for learning german are there that i dont know about?

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  • dasgrueneblattdasgrueneblatt@wien.rocks
    Apr 8, 2026, 3:06 PM

    @Jenetrix I'm a native speaker, so I don't know a lot :masto_lol: , but I know that -ung, -heit, and -keit are always die. The much loved -zeug is always das. Compound nouns always get the article of the last part, no matter how many parts they have.

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  • Enola Knezevicrhelune@todon.eu
    Apr 17, 2026, 9:36 AM

    @dasgrueneblatt @Jenetrix Was told by my German teacher that Latin nouns ending with -um (e.g. Museum) are always das, and the ones ending with -ion (e.g. Inflation) are always die.

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  • dasgrueneblattdasgrueneblatt@wien.rocks
    Apr 17, 2026, 10:08 AM

    @rhelune Those are good ones, yes, thank you!

    Exactly. As in many other languages too, also in German, when you know where the word comes from, you might realize that you already know more about it! Great. Yes. -tion is always die, -um (if from Latin) is das, das Museum, das Ministerium, and I just realized -tät is also always die! Like die Universität, die Kapazität, die Kausalität, die Produktivität.

    Me looking at a newspaper: found another one! -schaft is always die. Die Gesellschaft, die Wissenschaft, die Genossenschaft, die Verwandtschaft, die Wirtschaft.

    @Jenetrix

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