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Word Grammar

Noun

Grammatical categories

Gender

Natural gender

Grammatical gender

Meaning and gender

Form and gender

Gender variants

Foreign nouns

Number

Case

Semantic classes

Grammatical gender

Grammatical gender is much more important in German morphology and syntax than natural gender. The agreement in gender between nouns and other elements in a sentence is always based on grammatical gender. See Natural gender and grammatical gender.

There is not always a direct relation between grammatical gender and natural gender:

The grammatical gender of nouns referring to persons or animals is often – but not always – identical with the natural gender (see Natural gender).

Other nouns do not have a natural gender.

Therefore, it is very often impossible to predict the grammatical gender of a noun.

The gender of a noun must be explicitly indicated and has to be learned together with it.

Usually, the definite article is used to indicate the gender of a noun:

masculine:	der Tisch
feminine:	die Lampe
neuter:	das Bett

In a few cases, however, the meaning or the form of a noun allows to predict its grammatical gender:

Nouns referring to persons, animal names

Some other semantic groups

Form

Nouns with more than one gender, see:

Gender variants

Foreign words, see also:

Gender of foreign words

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