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How do you deal with learning gendered articles? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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Wanted to ask for some tips since I'm really struggling with this trying to learn German.

I know there are certain ways to guess the gender (e.g. -er endings are usually masculine, -ung feminine and loan words neutral) but often times I'm just butchering the whole sentence by not knowing the correct articles.

Let me demonstrate my frustration: in many cultures the moon is considered "feminine", but in German it has masculine article!

Bitte, hüfe!

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[–] Jonnynny@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Definitely learn the articles along with the word. The lack of this in certain learning apps like Duolingo is a major shortcoming.

Also related, I would recommend memorizing verbs with their prepositions. Bitten um, Denken an, Sich freuen auf/über

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

The learning of prepositions with verbs is another good tip, thanks!

I agree - duolingo used to have article training but has recently started omitting them.. This makes it so much harder to learn if you just rely on an app.