How are yin, yang and neutral defined in German?

German parts of speech* (masculine, feminine, neuter) are difficult to remember, mainly because they have no obvious rules to follow. Some words even have multiple parts of speech, and of course they express different meanings.

1) Masculine

In terms of word meaning:

Most nouns expressing masculine creatures, such as: der Mann man, der Vater father, der Knabe, der

Sohn son, der Hahn rooster

Nouns indicating direction, wind, frost, snow, rain, such as: der Osten east, der Norden north, der Taifun

Typhoon, der Foehn hot wind

(Note: There is an "e" after the word "o". What does it mean? If you forget to read the introduction of the letters in front, this is Very important, otherwise it will be easy to make a joke when used!) Nouns indicating four seasons, months, and dates, such as: der

Fruehling spring, der Herbst summer, der Januar January, der Mittwoch

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Wednesday but das Jahr year and die Woche

The week is not masculine. Most of the names of mountains represent the names of mountains and are masculine nouns (with only a few exceptions) such as: der Himalaja

Granite Most nouns that express the name of a monetary unit, such as: der Dollar, der Schilling, der

Pfennig, die Mark, das Pfund pound, die

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Drachme, the ancient Greek currency name, is not masculine

2) Feminine

From the meaning of the word:

Most nouns expressing feminine creatures, Such as: die Frau women, die Mutter mothers, die Schwester

Sisters, die Lehrerin female teachers. Most nouns expressing the names of flowers, trees and fruits, such as: die Rose roses, die

Nelke lilac, die Lilie lily, die Banane banana is a noun indicating the name of a German river, such as: die

Elbe Elbe River, die Oder Oder River, die Weser Weser River is a nominalized numeral, Such as: die Vier

Four, die Zehn Ten ships named after the name of a city or country, such as: die Bremen Bremen ship, die Hessen

Hessen ship

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From the word meaning: the name of a young creature, such as: das Kind child, das Kalb calf, das

Lamm lamb various continents, countries, cities, Names of villages, islands and peninsulas (proper nouns are articles only when used with attributives), such as: das

tropische Afrika tropical Africa das neue China

New China is almost The names of all metals are neutral nouns, such as: das Gold gold, das Silber silver, das Uran

Uranium, das Eisen iron exceptions are: der Stahl steel, die Bronze bronze, der Schwefel

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Sulfur can also be distinguished in other ways, but it is not very important. Basically remembering the above is enough.

Exception supplementary masculine nouns: nouns indicating seasons, months, and dates

die Nacht (night) feminine nouns: nouns indicating feminine creatures das Maedchen (girl).

Keep in mind the part of speech of nouns

Masculine nouns:

Generally, they have the following ending words: -and/ant such as der praktikant (intern)

< p>-ent as in der Student (student)

-er as in der Lehrer (teacher)

-ich as in der Teppich (carpet)

-ismus as in der Idealismus (idealism)

-ig as in Honig (honey)

-ling as in der Schmertterling (butterfly)

-or as in der Moderator (moderator) )

-us such as der Bonus (bonus)

In addition: Tage (day), Monate (month), Jahreszeiten (season), der

Mittwoch( Wednesday),der Mai(),der Fruhling(spring).

Neuter noun:

-ma das Klima climate

-ment das Fundament foundation< /p>

-tel das Viertel quarter

-(t)um das Eigentum property

-zeug das Spielzeug toys

Add- The nouns chen and lein always mean to be reduced (they make the noun "smaller"), and they are always neutral,

der Stuhl-das Stuhlchen (stool - small stool). Infinitives as nouns are also neuter:

laufen-----das Laufen (run), trinken----das Trinken

Feminine nouns

-a die Kamera camera

-ei die Backerei bakery

-heit die Gesundheit health

-keit die Dankbarkeit thanks

- ie die Psychologie Psychology

-ik die Grammatik Grammar

-in die Studentin Female Student

-ion die Production Production

- schaft die Freundschaft friendship

-tat die Universitat university

-ung die Wohnung housing

-nz die Existenz existence

and others Methods, such as using imagination, such as

Lastwagen (truck) feels very strong, naturally it is der

wasser (water) is neither acid nor alkali, it is das

Abfall (garbage) is usually dumped by boys, using der. Any noun starting with Ge- and indicating "a general term for a class of things" is 100% neutral, for example: das Geb?0?1ude building ;das Gericht dish, court; das Getr?0?1nk drink; das Gemüse vegetables; das Geb?0?1ck baking biscuits; das Gep?0?1ck luggage; das Gespr?0?1ch conversation, dialogue.

Any noun ending with -schaft is 100% feminine, no doubt, similar to the suffix -ship in English, which means "an abstract relationship", for example: die Wissenschaft science; die Wirtschaft economy; die Nachbarschaft neighbor relationship; die Freundschaft friendship; die Bereitschaft will; die Gewerkschaft trade union. All nouns ending with -um are 100% neutral and without any suspense, such as: das Studium university course; das Stipendium scholarship; das Museum museum; das Kriteritum standard; das Zentrum Center; das Datum Dates, Data; das Wachstum Growth; das Visum Visa. All nouns with the suffix keit or heit are 100% feminine, for example: die Gesundheit health, die Freiheit freedom, die M?0?2glichkeit possibility, die Flüssigkeit liquid, die Besonderheit special, die Einheit unity, die ?0? 2hnlichkeit similarity, die Unterschiedlichkeit difference, difference. 98% of nouns ending with the letter -e are feminine. This article is really helpful and solves many part-of-speech problems, such as: die Schule school; die Tasche bag, pocket; die Marmelade jam; die Erdbeere strawberry; die Tasse coffee Cup; die Folge sequence and consequences; die Frage problem; die Reise travel; die Panne failure; die Lunge lungs. In addition, a small number of nouns ending in -e are masculine, and they are all weak changes, such as der Kunde customer; der Affe Monkey;der L?0?2we lion;der Kollege male colleagues;but der K?0?1se are not weak changes; there are a few that are neutral, such as: das Ende end; das Wochenende weekend! The history of die Geschichte, indeed it is feminine, because as I mentioned it ends with -e; der Gebrauch usage, this word comes from the stem of the verb gebrauchen (to use), the verb stem forming a noun is often masculine; der Gesch ?0?1ftsmann businessman, this is a compound word. The part of speech of a compound noun depends on the last word. Mann is masculine, so it is also masculine