The Gardebiter cycle

Jul 17, 2010 at 9:46 PM
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Wedge of Cheese said:
But... you said before that if it's feminine I should use "Scheiß" instead of "Scheiße" (which seems counterintuitive, but whatev, languages often make no sense at all; English is a prime example).

"Scheiß" is correct for feminine.

Wedge of Cheese said:
Oh wait, by "die" you meant plural, not feminine. Okay my bad.

Nope. "Die Endung" isn't plural. "Die Endungen" is plural.
 
Jul 17, 2010 at 9:47 PM
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Man I've been learning nazi german in school for four years now. And I still mix der die das! God dammit! WHICH IS WHICH!?
 
Jul 22, 2010 at 5:41 PM
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Jul 22, 2010 at 5:47 PM
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Jul 30, 2010 at 6:41 AM
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WoodenRat said:
Man I've been learning nazi german in school for four years now. And I still mix der die das! God dammit! WHICH IS WHICH!?

Der is male, die is feminine, das is neutral which is supposed to be the pattern. Sadly this applies to about 5 words before it gets completely thrown out the fucking window and you just have to know which one it is, which is bs. I've lost so many points on tests for a lack of memorization skills.

Thank god I'm not taking a third year of this.
 
Jul 30, 2010 at 1:41 PM
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The accents in spanish, french and italian are a lot worse :x
 
Jul 30, 2010 at 1:44 PM
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Shadow the Past said:
Der is male, die is feminine, das is neutral which is supposed to be the pattern. Sadly this applies to about 5 words before it gets completely thrown out the fucking window and you just have to know which one it is, which is bs. I've lost so many points on tests for a lack of memorization skills.

Thank god I'm not taking a third year of this.

Here you wouldn't get points taken away because of misusing them, unless you did it in every fucking word.
 
Jul 30, 2010 at 3:08 PM
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Shadow the Past said:
Der is male, die is feminine, das is neutral which is supposed to be the pattern. Sadly this applies to about 5 words before it gets completely thrown out the fucking window and you just have to know which one it is

That's not true.

There are regularities for that in the german language.
Most nouns that end with "e" are feminine. (Also there are only very few nouns that end with "e" but are male.) Nouns that end with -heit, -keit and -ung are basicly feminine. Also nominalized adjectives and verbs are basically neutral. (but not if they end with -heit, -keit or -ung) Also nouns that end with -chen and -lein are always neutral.
Also when speaking about persons: Boy, man, father, uncle, grandfather etc. are male. Woman, mother, aunt, grandmother etc. are feminine. (Not girl though, girl is "Mädchen" in german, which is neutral because of -chen.)

I'm sure that there are other regularities too.
 
Jul 30, 2010 at 4:25 PM
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Mädchen always confused me.
 
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