There are also strong tendencies for german nouns in the basic form: First step is to discriminate between words of one and words of two syllables. The bi-syllabic nouns consist of one long(pronounced) and one short(unpronounced) syllable. The second (short and unpronounced) syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its noun ending. -e --> feminine: die Har-fe, die Blu-me, die Do-se, die Kat-ze, die Bir-ne... -er --> masculine: der Ha-fer, der Ei-mer, der Be-cher, der Stec-ker, der Pfef-fer, der Kel-ler... -en --> masculine: der Ha-fen, der Bal-ken, der Re-gen, der Schin-ken, der Brun-nen... -el--> mostly masculine: der Dac-kel, der Krei-sel, der Pin-sel, der Schlüs-sel.... here the plural form doesn´t change (one Pinsel, lots of Pinsel) but if the plural form is formed with additional "-n" it´s feminine: die In-sel (lots of In-seln), die Windel (lots of Win-deln), die Ta-fel (lots of Ta-feln).. Mono-syllabic nouns consist of one very long syllable. They are mostly masculine, but the plural form is decisive. In the plural form this very long syllable splits is one long and one short syllable. The second syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its plural ending: -er --> neuter: das Kind (lots of Kin-der), das Kleid (lots of Klei-der), das Schloss (lots of Schlös-ser)... -e plus "Umlaut" (vowel letter with two dots above) --> masculine: der Stuhl (lots of Stüh-le), der Wolf (lots of Wöl-fe), der Topf (lots of Töp-fe) -en --> feminine: die Bahn (lots of Bah-nen), die Fahrt (lots of Fahr-ten)...
Your approach to teaching is simple and precise that everyone learning will easily grasp the meaning of what you're talking about. Keep on teaching the world. I'm very grateful for all your lessons. Congratulations....
There are also strong tendencies for german nouns in the basic form: First step is to discriminate between words of one and words of two syllables. The bi-syllabic nouns consist of one long(pronounced) and one short(unpronounced) syllable. The second (short and unpronounced) syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its noun ending. -e --> feminine: die Har-fe, die Blu-me, die Do-se, die Kat-ze, die Bir-ne... -er --> masculine: der Ha-fer, der Ei-mer, der Be-cher, der Stec-ker, der Pfef-fer, der Kel-ler... -en --> masculine: der Ha-fen, der Bal-ken, der Re-gen, der Schin-ken, der Brun-nen... -el--> mostly masculine: der Dac-kel, der Krei-sel, der Pin-sel, der Schlüs-sel.... here the plural form doesn´t change (one Pinsel, lots of Pinsel) but if the plural form is formed with additional "-n" it´s feminine: die In-sel (lots of In-seln), die Windel (lots of Win-deln), die Ta-fel (lots of Ta-feln).. Mono-syllabic nouns consist of one very long syllable. They are mostly masculine, but the plural form is decisive. In the plural form this very long syllable splits is one long and one short syllable. The second syllable carries the information for the Artikel in its plural ending: -er --> neuter: das Kind (lots of Kin-der), das Kleid (lots of Klei-der), das Schloss (lots of Schlös-ser)... -e plus vowel change in the stem (Umlaut = vowel letter with two dots above) --> masculine: der Stuhl (lots of Stüh-le), der Wolf (lots of Wöl-fe), der Topf (lots of Töp-fe) -en --> feminine: die Bahn (lots of Bah-nen), die Fahrt (lots of Fahr-ten)...
I'm happy that I came across your channel. You're good at this. As an anglophone who's studied French, I have no problem with French noun gender. It's because I have heard the language enough now that I can hear the music. I expect that I will pick up the music of German as I need to.
As someone who speaks fluently French and Arabic besides english, it helps a lot to understand better German grammar as I think from my experience German grammar is much more similar to French and vocab more to English which is helping me with my learning so far (A2) and you Laura are simply amazing how simple you explain this. Vielen dank! ❤️👌🏻
Laura, You’re very very knowledgeable in German! Your lessons will be highly effective in my review of, and growth in, German language skills. I HOPE the following may be useful to German language learners. When I first studied German in high school, I did not even think to use colors to help me associate masculine, feminine, or neuter. However, about 37 years later, when I studied Hebrew, I wrote feminine nouns and feminine verb endings with pink ink, and masculine nouns and masculine verb endings with blue ink. I used purple to write endings that applied to group endings which would include male AND female, because pink and blue make PURPLE!! 😄 There is no neuter in Hebrew, so I didn’t have to think about it. I also incorporated the MONTESSORI grammar symbols to mark my vocabulary so that it would remind me whether the word was a verb, noun, adjective, adverb, an article, pronoun, preposition, interjection, or a conjunction. Some people may NOT want to be this detailed, but it may help those who like to be very INTERACTIVE with their learning! 😄 So NOW, for German review of NEUTER nouns , I think I will use pencil since it looks GREY, or BLACK ink for neuter! Thank you again, for your excellent teaching!! You are helping many people! All the best!!!
Excellent and inspiring. The information on this video is very helpful. I have been stumbling through, learning der, die, das by memory. This helps to put structure to it. The colour coding is a neat memory aid. Thank you.
in portuguese, my native language, we have genders for nouns as well and it was so confusing because in portuguese, for example: table is feminine " a mesa" but in german is masculine "der tisch" but now you explained things go automatic in my brain, that helped a lot
Great advice, Laura! Decades ago, when I was learning German, I actually took 3 smallish notebooks (one yellow, one red and one green) and assigned the "der nouns" to the green notebook, the "die nouns" to the yellow notebook and the "das nouns" to the red notebook. I bought a small German dictionary and painstakingly wrote all of the masculine der nouns in the green notebook; the feminine nouns in the yellow notebook and the neuter nouns in the red notebook. Once I had done that, I "lightly-colored" each noun with colored pencils corresponding to the color of their notebook covers. I would practice learning German nouns genders that way. :-)
I wonder if Miss Laura is German??!! I am half German, and I love love love organizing my learning into groups. So, before viewing this video, I had already noticed the Months & Seasons are all masculine nouns, and I created a group just for them! Now I know them all with maybe 5 minutes memorization (only wish my pronunciation would be that easy!!).
Well, I have been watching some videos about this topic and I think this video is the best one which clearly tells the topic without leaving a question mark. I saw noun endings method but didn't really understand till I watch this video. I will recommend this video to my German learner friends too. Thank you so much for your great effort.
Ms. I have huge respect for you for this lesson. That how can learner define which Article can be uses where. Because Deutsch has many Noun eords. Dank schon.
Learning noun endings and groups is going to give you the most assistance. Any noun that falls outside those categories will ultimately need to be memorized. -Nicole, GwL Team
I really benefitted from your german grammar course. I also really appreciate that it was free. It has helped me develop the motivation to practice again. I'll hopefully be able to save up for your German foundations course soon! Have a lovely day :)
FYI: In the German grammar text I have … which is written _in German_ for Germans … they're not called "noun genders", they're called "noun _Genus."_ Which, think about it, makes more sense: "Genus" being Latin for "category" or "group". "Genus" can _also_ be translated as "gender," but it's pretty far down the list. So don't think, "Noun Gender", think: "Noun Genus" … i.e. Noun Category.
I have a question here. I realized that we may not use _dass_ necessarily For example: -Ich hoffe, ich *kann* morgen kommen. -Ich hoffe, dass ich morgen kommen *kann* . What's the difference between these two sentences? How do we know which one to use and where? I really appreciate your answer.
Sorry for the delay! They are both correct sentences and it would just depend on the context you’re using them in. With a more formal or written setting, it would be better to use the second option with ‘dass’. In an informal/spoken context it would be appropriate to use the first option. -Lindsay, GwL Team
It would be interesting to apply artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to finding grammatical language patterns. The data is widely available and for sites like Kaggle, many would likely contribute. You are an outstanding teacher. I recently learned the weak and strong endings for determiners and adjectives and found your content the best approach. Gut gemacht!
Der Campus im Berlin ist sehr gut. Guten Tag Laura. Yes , i like the motto " Learn German Smarter not harder " . Yes, i try to learn German using your channel #GermanWithLaura 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 Danke Schön.
Hello Laura, Thanks for sharing these videos. I want to learn German but want to start with the first video. Could you please put the videos with a sequence it will help us to go through a sequence and learn step by step.
Yeah, I had "hit the ceiling" a while ago, with minimal progress for some time now. Duolingo sucess was limited, while Rosetta stone had techical issues with no support or refuind. Truly horrible!! This is WAAYYYYY Better!!!
Yup, der Apfel is an exception to the rule. When we are looking at noun groups or endings, we're looking for the gender that the majority will take. The majority of fruit will be feminine, so if you have to make a guess, choose feminine. That means there can still be some exceptions, like Apfel.
I can’t understand why language teachers don’t think that WORDS that are not of common use should not be placed as example, let alone to be memorised. Here you are one: der Fäustling. When was the last time that you used a mitten in a day to day conversation? Hope you get this tip for your superb videos teaching. Language is communication , so let’s have useful vocabulary at all time.
Hi Laura, this video was really clear about der, die, das. I was confused when I read das madchen in german, thinking why are the girls (clearly feminine) associated with the neuter "das", which thanks to you, I know now. But in 11:22, can you please mention which rule here gets precedence when a noun is for example, masculine according to ending, but not masculine according to the noun group?
It's because of the supreme strength of the neuter -chen / -lein endings, which outweighs even 'intuitive gender'! The basic gender hierarchy (I'm not including some nuances here) is: -chen / -lein intuitive gender most endings (e.g. -ling, -ung, -ment) the remaining noun groups (e.g. animals, plants, weather, fabrics, etc.) the weakest endings (e.g. -a, -om, -al, etc.)
8:11: "das Kanada": In fact, most countries don´t use articles at all in German. No article: Kanada, Frankreich, Österreich (but historic: das Römische Reich, das Deutsche Reich), Schweden, Dänemark, Großbritannien/England, Polen, Island, Indien, China, Australien, Chile, Brasilien and more. If you talk about these countries as objects, say "das Land ....". Female article: die Türkei, die USA, die Schweiz, die Arabischen Emirate (plural), die Ukraine, die Sowjetunion, die Mongolei. Male article: der Jemen, der Tschad, der Vatikan(staat), der Iran, der Irak. Die Dominikanische Republik is female, but travel pundits have her as Domrep which goes without.
I believe I addressed this more in the video notes (look there for more info!), but yes, it is certainly the case that most the time countries would not use an article at all. But my point is that in the relatively rare instances in which we would need one, most countries would then be neuter.
It is a feminine noun. This is where declensions and cases come into play. It is a feminine noun being used in the dative case, and that is why it is using 'der' instead of 'die.' I teach in depth about declensions and the case system in my courses. You can get started here for free! germanwithlaura.com/unlocking-german-grammar/
!! 2 questions... what's with rolling the R's? Is that reminiscent of Nazism... or is it okay to do in Germany? Also, is pronunciation of "ich" regional? "ish" or "ich"? DANKE!
Well, Hitler definitely did have a very distinctive pronunciation pattern, but I would not consider rolling R's to have ties to Nazism. You'll find that rolling R's and the pronunciation of 'ich' is, indeed, a regional issue. :-)
I'm kinda confused. You said you'll reference a link to an article about more details, but there's no link in the description (the provided link is something else)
Hello my teacher .i hope you are great (Das ist ein auto). We have here one Subject or two subject ?I think das here is a demonstrative and Because a teacher told we have two subject( das and auto ) Thanks for responding
Kurze Ausbesserung für die Aussprache von Essig 😅 Man kann es wie Laura artikulieren, aber korrekterweise würde es nicht wie „ich“ ausgesprochen werden 😊 sorry for being a „Neunmalklug“ 😅
