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‘Nouns’ Archive

Noun genders February 8, 2010 3 Comments

Since long before Mark Twain complained about the German language, students have been grappling with German genders.  The concept of grammatical gender is an especially difficult one for English-speakers to wrap their minds around at first. What is gender? Grammatical gender is a system of noun classification.  Nouns, not objects, have genders.  Germans therefore can [...]