It is a pleasure to read wikipedia article in german and see the genders of every word immediately, it helps later on to recall the gender by just trying to remember what color the word was marked with.. In german, however, we have three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter and it’s important to remember the gender of the nouns, because it determines the article you’re going to use.. German goes them one better and adds a third gender: neuter. the masculine definite article (“the”) is der , feminine is die , and neuter is das . german-speakers have had many years to learn whether wagen (car) is der or die or das ..
Students of german are often advised to learn german nouns with their accompanying definite article, as the definite article of a german noun corresponds to the gender of the noun. however, the meaning or form, especially the ending, of a noun can be used to recognize 80% of noun genders..
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