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Old 03-15-2014, 11:56 AM   #82 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Kartoffelbrei View Post
Well the articles der, die and das are rather randomly chosen.
There's no rule, why something has it's special gender.
The rain is a dude, love is a chick, the sky is a dude, stars are dudes, genitals are neutrums.. There's absolutely no rule.
I think that's extremely hard to remember, when German is not your native tongue
That's the nice thing about English, despite all its quirks: with the exceptions of ships, aircraft, cars, and locomotives (all female), the genders make sense. That was one of the main difficulties I had learning German.
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