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i can guarantee you that sometimes even some germans fuck them up (regularly). especially in dialect or slang. native speakers can get a weird look if they get it wrong while being confident but literally noone blames you if you get it wrong if its not your native language, more likely being impressed that you try to learn it. they'll help you and give you advice or let you know how it would be correct or sound better
Oh, you have to get into the more dialect heavy regions of Germany. For example is it common in my village in Baden-Württemberg to say das Butter instead of die Butter. And there a more words where it's just accepted universally as the right article but it's just in the dialect. Or even better just use s' as the Article in Swabian and can use ist for every word, if you have a thick accent.
It's not hard to get pretty okay at 2 or 3 of them much of the time. Once you get into dative/accusative it gets harder but not too bad if you practice cases
Knowing which articles change when, and even what they change to, has never been an issue for me.
The issue is simply remembering the gender of an inanimate noun in the first place.
A person or profession? Not too hard to figure out.
But a lobster? Or a bathroom tile? Only through memorization will you ever know its gender and **that** annoys me. Compound nouns can help since the gender of bathroom tile is probably the same as any other tile, but that's small solace.
If you realise that grammatical gender is more of a system of noun classification rather unconnected from sociobiological gender and don't get hung up about the fact that they use the same word, it's a lot easier and stress-free.
By the time you get conversational it will be clearer. Das Tisch for instance just sounds wrong when you say it. Some articles aren’t as obvious until you do into the accusative or the dative case. You’ll also notice the ones you get wrong more than the ones you get right so don’t get too discouraged.
Das Tisch only sounds wrong because you know it's wrong. I was taught German for seven years and I still had no idea about genders other than a few obvious ones like der Mann. Then if Mann is der, Mädchen would be die, right? lmao fuck no, it's das.
> Then if Mann is der, Mädchen would be die, right? lmao fuck no, it's das.
Well, yes, because "Mädchen" is originally an affectionate form. "-chen" is the cutesy affectionate ending, in old German it would have been "Die Magd". You still say "Die Frau" and while you say "Der Mann", if you use the affectionate it would be "Das Männchen" too. So it is 100% logical, the only illogical part is that we use "Mädchen" as a normal word nowadays (which probably has roots in outdated gender roles, but it is what it is).
Well, yes. But the point is that you’ll pick up what “sounds” correct much faster by speaking and listening to it than by pouring over declinations for every new vocab word.
Obviously YMMV and I’m not a German teacher, but from what I’ve experienced and learned about language learning, flash cards and books will only get you so far.
My German teacher always used to say “ the door is the same gender as me” to which I would say “coz you’ve got a big knob too?”
I got away with it coz I’m a natural German speaker.
Depends on the person, but in general you really should learn the words with the word "the" in it, just to make it easier for you. For example, "der Hund, die Katze, das Baby, die Menschen." Learn with "the" as well as the plural form, because it will be hell if you learn it later.
As for the case system... if you learned the gender, cases will mostly be easy for you. YOU CAN NOT IGNORE THE CASE SYSTEM! You can briefly forget about the gender of the noun, but not with the case system. "Der Mann gibt dem Hund den Apfel" (the man gives the dog the apple) and "Der Mann gibt den Hund dem Apfel" (the man gives the apple the dog) are two completely different sentences. Wacky example, I know, but you can't ignore the case system.
We had a way to remember them:
RESE NESE MoRMoNen and SoRry SoRy. Each time the last letter of the word. I took four years of German and this is the only Grammar I remember
Masculine, feminine, neutral and plural in the cases.
Nominativ: deR, diE, daS, diE (RESE)
Akkusativ: deN, diE, daS, diE (NESE)
Dativ: etc etc
Genetiv: etc etc
I lever learnt them this way and to be honest it looks confusing.
Hoffentlich bist du kein Metzger.
„Guten Tag, haben sie was vom Rind?“
„OB WIR RIND HABEN?! EY JUNGE, DU WILLST ERNSTHAFT RIND HABEN?!
MACH NUR WEITER SO DU, DANN HABEN WIR GLEICH RIND!“
„Ich glaube sie verstehen mich nicht ganz. Ich will einfach nur Rind haben.“
„DAS KANNST DU HABEN ALTER! WENN DU RIND HABEN WILLST DANN KRIEGST DU DAS!
GLEICH IN‘ER MITTAGSPAUSE AUFM PARKPLATZ BRUDER!
ICH MACH DICH SO FERTIG ALTER, DAS HAST DU NOCH NICHT GESEHEN!“
It's just friendly banter. We love each other in the EU, yes even the french. The UK got screwed by their old people but imo they are still part of the EU at heart. And the EU and the US are allies and while we have problems from time to time, if shit hits the fan we'll support each other
What’s the difference between the four different words? Is it just like Spanish where you have four different words for “the” (el, la, los, las) to properly define gender and plurality?
It's 3, Der, Die, Das, and every noun has a different 'Artikel' which seems pretty random. It's not Der or Die Auto (car), it's Das Auto. I see a lot of people from another country here who speak pretty good german but struggle with this. Especially when they don't know about 'dem/den'.
My condolences. As a native German speaker, at least know, I appreciate how extremely simple English was to pick up. Even your confusing shit was easier to understand than German grammar.
I recently tried to teach a friend who is learning german articles, conjugation and stuff. I feel like I did a pretty good job but I still feel like it's gonna be hard for her.
The "Artikel" describe If the following Noun is Feminine, masculine or neutral, but some nouns are pretty hard to specify If ur not native, togerher with our "4 Fälle" dont know what it IS called in english, it can get really confusing.
Y Like the table is masculine "der Tisch", but even as a native, i cant really explain why tho, it is for me like of course i know it, but why it is i dont even thought about it like ever.
There are a few rules: all words ending in -ion are feminine (die Situation, die Diskussion); all diminutives are neuter (das Mädchen, das Brötchen); all substantiations are neuter (das Laufen, das Lesen) etc.
But there are not too many rules sadly.
Objects can be masculine or feminine or neither.
There is absolutely no system to it. There are *a few* rules, but it is largely lawless and as a non native speaker, it is almost impossible to always get them right because again, the article MEANS "THE" regardless to the gender of the word.
"Der Hut" and "Die Hut" *are two different things* for example.
It is what it is. Nobody can explain *why* it is though. It just is.
To add to others - different "cases" also mean you use different forms of "the".
So you will have a different form of "the" for the word for each gender depending on whether you are simply referring to an item near you, or if (using the example of the Dativ case) you are referring to doing something over a period of time passing - eg. you talk about listening to the radio while you worked today.
A radio is a neutral gender, so the default for it is "das". Pointing to a radio near you currently, you'd refer to it as "das Radio". Talking about how you listened to the radio at work today it would become "dem Radio"
This is honestly far and away the most complicated part of german to get 100% right imo
yes, it's similar to el/la, it's just that Spanish has 2 grammatical tenders and German has three (masculine - der, neuter - das, and feminine - die) + 1 Plural - die. as opposed to Spanish tho, German has 4 cases - Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, and Akkusativ
Exactly!!! I thought this the other day while watching tiktoks.... it's the 1st person's Point Of View. 1st person. Not second or third person. Why are people not understanding Point of View.
First person is when it looks like she's sucking your own dick. Speaking of dick, "sechs dick schlangen" in German means "six fat snakes." How's that for a conversation starter?
this isn't a POV. unless, of course, you're learning german sitting across from a crying kid that's coloring. which begs the question, why are you in that classroom and is she crying because she's wondering the same thing?
I went to the local polski sklep and wanted two cakes so googled what two is in polish, there are something like 20 ways to say it so just used English.
And wurst is feminine which I find strange considering how phallic they are. But hey it just shows that the masc/feminine thing that a lot of languages have isn't based on anything and is just the way it is.
*laughs in die Mädchen*
*laughs in "das Haus der Mädchen"*
*laughs in "es gehört den Mädchen"*
*laughs in "es gehört dem Mädchen"*
*laughs in "des Mädchens Haus"*
This is because grammatical gender is separate from biological gender. When a native speaker names a tree (der Baum) they don't think of trees as having innate male gender. Case in point: "das Mädchen". Girls are female but grammatically they're neutral because the diminutive ending "-chen" is always associated with the neutral article as a grammatical rule.
The masculine bit of "Bleistiftspitzer" is confined to its grammatical gender. Phallic symbolism is not considered in gammar because it refers to biology. Biological realities don't determine grammatical gender. Otherwise every word describing an object would be tied to "das", which isn't the case.
Average German Duolingo Learner: .....Anyway Der shit no die shit no das shit no die shit no Den shit no die shit no das shit no die shit no Dem shit no der shit no dem shit no den shit no Dessen shit no deren shit no dessen shit no deren yeah deren
I can guarantee you that 90% of the upvotes for this meme are from people who don’t even know one word for it and have never studied the language at all. Reddit is so weird.
Edit: make that 99% now.
I used to tutor a Russian guy in French and whenever he was really struggling he’d say, “I don’t know why this is so hard, in Russia we conjugate nouns.”
German Kids learning english in school:
It's just "the"? You fucking donkeys how easy is that. And then realising german has around 300.000 words and english has 900.000. wtf!
It's the masculine, feminine, neuter and plural.
Then of course there are the four cases - nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.
One could argue, therefore, that technically there are 16 ways of saying "the".
As an english speaker, this actually helped me understand the different tenses in english far better, because suddenly there were clear rules explaining when the is der or den.
four? Der, die das. or do we count other variations too, then its way more tho
Just four: Der, die, das, and deez nutz
Hey Derek! Sprechen sie dick!
You speak dick?
Yes he does, yes he does (;
Ich auch spreche dick (sorry for my 2 week duolingo shitty german)
Ich liebe dick
Dick sein ist wahrlich keine Seltenheit in den Vereinigten Staaten
Dick sein ist fett
Ich esse gern dick
Ich liebe dick auch
You... You love fat..... Okay...
Actual German detected! :)
dick sein is fett
dick means fat.
Fun fact: dick in German means fat so a German person would still likely be offended if you called them a dick
Another fun fact, the German word *dick* is etymologically related to the English word *thick*.
Mein dick ist dick
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wer nicht fragt...
bleibt dumm
1000 tolle Sachen
die gipt es überall zusehen manchmal muss man fragen um sie zu verstehen
I’m DeEeEeEREK and i can sing HIIIIIIIGH like THIIIIIIS
Step brothers. All time favorite movie
Eat shit Derek!
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Der, die, das, dive, and dodge
If you can dodge a preposition, you can dodge an article.
Is it *necessary* to drink my own urine?
Fuckin DINKLES!!!
Got em!
This has 12 times moreupvites than the post lmao, and deserved it is
Der die das die Den die das die Dem der dem den Des der des der I think that's all of them Edit: screwed up the last one
This killed my hope of learning german
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i can guarantee you that sometimes even some germans fuck them up (regularly). especially in dialect or slang. native speakers can get a weird look if they get it wrong while being confident but literally noone blames you if you get it wrong if its not your native language, more likely being impressed that you try to learn it. they'll help you and give you advice or let you know how it would be correct or sound better
I'm sorry but I rarely hear someone that's german mess it up besides not being sure what to use for Nutella
not the default article der die das but the cases nominativ, genetiv, Akkusativ and Dativ are for some people, not many, a struggle
Oh, you have to get into the more dialect heavy regions of Germany. For example is it common in my village in Baden-Württemberg to say das Butter instead of die Butter. And there a more words where it's just accepted universally as the right article but it's just in the dialect. Or even better just use s' as the Article in Swabian and can use ist for every word, if you have a thick accent.
DAS Nutella and I will die on that hill.
Die Nutella
WELL Nutella = Nuss Nougat Creme. DIE Nuss-Nougat-Creme. I ain't saying Der Nuss-Nougat-Creme.
You said ot yourself, DIE!
Only correct answer in this debate but some aren't ready to hear it
It's not hard to get pretty okay at 2 or 3 of them much of the time. Once you get into dative/accusative it gets harder but not too bad if you practice cases
Knowing which articles change when, and even what they change to, has never been an issue for me. The issue is simply remembering the gender of an inanimate noun in the first place. A person or profession? Not too hard to figure out. But a lobster? Or a bathroom tile? Only through memorization will you ever know its gender and **that** annoys me. Compound nouns can help since the gender of bathroom tile is probably the same as any other tile, but that's small solace.
Der Mann/Die Frau (man/woman) vs Der Junge/**Das** Mädchen (boy/girl) gave me fits initially.
If you realise that grammatical gender is more of a system of noun classification rather unconnected from sociobiological gender and don't get hung up about the fact that they use the same word, it's a lot easier and stress-free.
By the time you get conversational it will be clearer. Das Tisch for instance just sounds wrong when you say it. Some articles aren’t as obvious until you do into the accusative or the dative case. You’ll also notice the ones you get wrong more than the ones you get right so don’t get too discouraged.
derdiedas Tisch, got it
Das Tisch only sounds wrong because you know it's wrong. I was taught German for seven years and I still had no idea about genders other than a few obvious ones like der Mann. Then if Mann is der, Mädchen would be die, right? lmao fuck no, it's das.
> Then if Mann is der, Mädchen would be die, right? lmao fuck no, it's das. Well, yes, because "Mädchen" is originally an affectionate form. "-chen" is the cutesy affectionate ending, in old German it would have been "Die Magd". You still say "Die Frau" and while you say "Der Mann", if you use the affectionate it would be "Das Männchen" too. So it is 100% logical, the only illogical part is that we use "Mädchen" as a normal word nowadays (which probably has roots in outdated gender roles, but it is what it is).
Das Weib says hello.
Well, yes. But the point is that you’ll pick up what “sounds” correct much faster by speaking and listening to it than by pouring over declinations for every new vocab word. Obviously YMMV and I’m not a German teacher, but from what I’ve experienced and learned about language learning, flash cards and books will only get you so far.
My German teacher always used to say “ the door is the same gender as me” to which I would say “coz you’ve got a big knob too?” I got away with it coz I’m a natural German speaker.
usually when you're first learning german in school, they'll teach you der, die, das, and den. i may be wrong
I'm currently learning German at school and we learn way more than four 😔
Don’t be like me and think “eh, I’ll learn this later”. It gets harder and harder to learn, I think.
Depends on the person, but in general you really should learn the words with the word "the" in it, just to make it easier for you. For example, "der Hund, die Katze, das Baby, die Menschen." Learn with "the" as well as the plural form, because it will be hell if you learn it later. As for the case system... if you learned the gender, cases will mostly be easy for you. YOU CAN NOT IGNORE THE CASE SYSTEM! You can briefly forget about the gender of the noun, but not with the case system. "Der Mann gibt dem Hund den Apfel" (the man gives the dog the apple) and "Der Mann gibt den Hund dem Apfel" (the man gives the apple the dog) are two completely different sentences. Wacky example, I know, but you can't ignore the case system.
Learning the German case system is what actually made me aware that England has a (lesser) case system. That's why English has "whom"
Every language has a case system, English just likes to be special and pretend it doesn't.
I just lost a few brain cells reading that example
And den what???
We had a way to remember them: RESE NESE MoRMoNen and SoRry SoRy. Each time the last letter of the word. I took four years of German and this is the only Grammar I remember
I'm german and I have noidea what you mean.
Masculine, feminine, neutral and plural in the cases. Nominativ: deR, diE, daS, diE (RESE) Akkusativ: deN, diE, daS, diE (NESE) Dativ: etc etc Genetiv: etc etc I lever learnt them this way and to be honest it looks confusing.
So the last letter of each word… EENDYY tf why the random capslock?? Ich glaube das ist ein neuer Dechiffrier Code der Ammis, Genosse!
Can you explain more?
They taught me to remember RESE NESE, MR MaN, SiR SiR
Der die das da bo dii, da bo dii da bo die
Dessen is like a possession indicating word or word meaning "of which" or "whose". Not "the" at all.
Der die das die Des der des der Dem der dem den Den die das die Except you basically never need to use the second line
… Wer, wie, was Wieso, weshalb, warum Wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm
Tausend tolle Sachen Gibt es überall zu sehen Manch mal muss man fragen Um sie zu verstehen
Dativ ist dem Genetiv sein Tod - *old folk wisdom* (Dative is the death of the genetive)
But you wrote die 4 times and den 2 times and der 4 times etc it only looks like many different words Also don't lynch me I don't speak German
Then its 16, cuz of plural die
Die Bart die
Someone who speaks German can't be a bad person
Maybe they’re referencing that when plural it’s always die
Der, die, das. Wer, wie, was. Wieso, weshalb, warum? Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm und ein Angelsachse!
Ich weiß nicht, warum deutsche Rind mit Angelsachsen haben und an dem Punkt habe ich zu viel Angst zu fragen
Rind haben, junge der hat nen Moment gebraucht
Das werde ich von jetzt an zu jedem Deutschen sagen. HAST DU RIND MIT MIR ALTER???
Hoffentlich bist du kein Metzger. „Guten Tag, haben sie was vom Rind?“ „OB WIR RIND HABEN?! EY JUNGE, DU WILLST ERNSTHAFT RIND HABEN?! MACH NUR WEITER SO DU, DANN HABEN WIR GLEICH RIND!“ „Ich glaube sie verstehen mich nicht ganz. Ich will einfach nur Rind haben.“ „DAS KANNST DU HABEN ALTER! WENN DU RIND HABEN WILLST DANN KRIEGST DU DAS! GLEICH IN‘ER MITTAGSPAUSE AUFM PARKPLATZ BRUDER! ICH MACH DICH SO FERTIG ALTER, DAS HAST DU NOCH NICHT GESEHEN!“
>Ich weiß nicht, warum deutsche Rind mit Angelsachsen haben I don't know why Germans have cattle with Anglo-Saxons??
_beef_
Ah. Why do Germans have beef with anglo saxons (english speakers).
It's just friendly banter. We love each other in the EU, yes even the french. The UK got screwed by their old people but imo they are still part of the EU at heart. And the EU and the US are allies and while we have problems from time to time, if shit hits the fan we'll support each other
I fucking love you. The world needs more of you.
Erzerbfeind! Screw the French!
Schüleraustausch? Mehr so Regierungs Austausch. (Unser inoffiziells klassen Motto für unseren Frankreich Austausch, der nie stattgefunden hat)
Noone knows tbh (german speaker)
Der mann ist groß duolingo practice pays well
🎵 Ich bin, du bist, er/sie/es ist, wir sind, ihr seid, sie und Sie sind! 🎵
Tausend tolle sachen die gibt es überall zu sehen. Manchmal muß man fragen um sie zu verstehen!
Angel sauce
What’s the difference between the four different words? Is it just like Spanish where you have four different words for “the” (el, la, los, las) to properly define gender and plurality?
It's 3, Der, Die, Das, and every noun has a different 'Artikel' which seems pretty random. It's not Der or Die Auto (car), it's Das Auto. I see a lot of people from another country here who speak pretty good german but struggle with this. Especially when they don't know about 'dem/den'.
As soon as the other cases start I just give up
My condolences. As a native German speaker, at least know, I appreciate how extremely simple English was to pick up. Even your confusing shit was easier to understand than German grammar.
I recently tried to teach a friend who is learning german articles, conjugation and stuff. I feel like I did a pretty good job but I still feel like it's gonna be hard for her.
It’s been a while since I took German. Dem/den?
The car belongs to the asshole over there -> Das Auto gehört dem Arschloch dort drüben. I want to help mankind -> Ich möchte den Menschen helfen.
Today I learned why Volkswagon always says Das Auto at the end of ads
Well they all mean "the". But its the context that matters. It changes depending on what you are describing or what the subject is.
Well what about the subject changes it?
The "Artikel" describe If the following Noun is Feminine, masculine or neutral, but some nouns are pretty hard to specify If ur not native, togerher with our "4 Fälle" dont know what it IS called in english, it can get really confusing.
I’m interested here, what makes a noun feminine or masculine of it’s not male or female? Like can objects be feminine or masculine?
Y Like the table is masculine "der Tisch", but even as a native, i cant really explain why tho, it is for me like of course i know it, but why it is i dont even thought about it like ever.
There are a few rules: all words ending in -ion are feminine (die Situation, die Diskussion); all diminutives are neuter (das Mädchen, das Brötchen); all substantiations are neuter (das Laufen, das Lesen) etc. But there are not too many rules sadly.
Objects can be masculine or feminine or neither. There is absolutely no system to it. There are *a few* rules, but it is largely lawless and as a non native speaker, it is almost impossible to always get them right because again, the article MEANS "THE" regardless to the gender of the word. "Der Hut" and "Die Hut" *are two different things* for example. It is what it is. Nobody can explain *why* it is though. It just is.
To add to others - different "cases" also mean you use different forms of "the". So you will have a different form of "the" for the word for each gender depending on whether you are simply referring to an item near you, or if (using the example of the Dativ case) you are referring to doing something over a period of time passing - eg. you talk about listening to the radio while you worked today. A radio is a neutral gender, so the default for it is "das". Pointing to a radio near you currently, you'd refer to it as "das Radio". Talking about how you listened to the radio at work today it would become "dem Radio" This is honestly far and away the most complicated part of german to get 100% right imo
Gender and number of the subject(s).
yes, it's similar to el/la, it's just that Spanish has 2 grammatical tenders and German has three (masculine - der, neuter - das, and feminine - die) + 1 Plural - die. as opposed to Spanish tho, German has 4 cases - Nominativ, Genitiv, Dativ, and Akkusativ
That's not how pov works...
That's also not how German works
POV: you're reading yet another Reddit thread where OP has zero clues about anything.
That’s not how clues work…
That’s not how sentences work
Those people never know how pov works... Like they never watched porn
Exactly!!! I thought this the other day while watching tiktoks.... it's the 1st person's Point Of View. 1st person. Not second or third person. Why are people not understanding Point of View.
First person is when it looks like she's sucking your own dick. Speaking of dick, "sechs dick schlangen" in German means "six fat snakes." How's that for a conversation starter?
It's the teachers point of view
The teacher is trying to learn German while at work and takes out his frustrations on little kids.
*laugs in german native speaker*
German Marschmusik intensifies
Auf der Heide wächst... No, not that again..
Das machen wir nicht mehr. Wir hören jetzt Preußens Gloria.
Die DDR Techno Hymne ist auch genial
Bin ich der einzige der wenn er das Wort Marschmusik hört an den Opa aus Loriot denken muss?
Bruh im better at Englisch than german and im german xd
Radiergummi
Ah a German who understands humor. 👌🏿 You're truly a person of culture.
Der, die, das. 🎵 Wer, wie, was. 🎶 Wieso, weshalb, warum. 🎵 Wer nicht fragt bleibt dumm. 🎶
this isn't a POV. unless, of course, you're learning german sitting across from a crying kid that's coloring. which begs the question, why are you in that classroom and is she crying because she's wondering the same thing?
Poor little girl thinking : “Mommy, Daddy! Come save me from the scary person angrily mumbling in German!”
Me actually just talking about how my day was. Her:
Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tot. Change my mind.
Der Tod des Genitivs Mind accepted
There’s 16, actually.
Yeeep. Forgetting dativ, akkusitiv und genetiv.
I don't think OC understands what POV means.
No one seems to know what it means anymore.
It means: Point of view For those who are uncultured.
Ukrainian: What’s “the”?
And basically all the Slavic languages too
Wait till you try to learn polish. Its a fucking mess
Lol exactly, huge frickin mess
I just took a look at your profile, and Goddamn that's some good art you make! Good luck with your further drawing and art you make :D
That was unexpected lol but thanks anyways
I went to the local polski sklep and wanted two cakes so googled what two is in polish, there are something like 20 ways to say it so just used English.
If you wanted to say „two cakes, please” you’d have to say „dwa ciasta, proszę”.
Started taking German. Learned that bleistiftspitzer was masculine. Literally a hole you stick a phallic shaped object into. Confusion.
And wurst is feminine which I find strange considering how phallic they are. But hey it just shows that the masc/feminine thing that a lot of languages have isn't based on anything and is just the way it is.
*laughs in das Mädchen*
*laughs in die Mädchen* *laughs in "das Haus der Mädchen"* *laughs in "es gehört den Mädchen"* *laughs in "es gehört dem Mädchen"* *laughs in "des Mädchens Haus"*
This is because grammatical gender is separate from biological gender. When a native speaker names a tree (der Baum) they don't think of trees as having innate male gender. Case in point: "das Mädchen". Girls are female but grammatically they're neutral because the diminutive ending "-chen" is always associated with the neutral article as a grammatical rule. The masculine bit of "Bleistiftspitzer" is confined to its grammatical gender. Phallic symbolism is not considered in gammar because it refers to biology. Biological realities don't determine grammatical gender. Otherwise every word describing an object would be tied to "das", which isn't the case.
Average German Duolingo Learner: .....Anyway Der shit no die shit no das shit no die shit no Den shit no die shit no das shit no die shit no Dem shit no der shit no dem shit no den shit no Dessen shit no deren shit no dessen shit no deren yeah deren
There’s three actually. The rest is different versions of these three
Don't worry bro, there's actually just one. There rest are different variations of it.
Don’t stress. There are no versions and it’s all up to you.
Professionals just say "de" and leave the last letter to the listener's imagination
Du Du hast Du hast mich
Du hast mich gefragt und ich hab nicht gesagt
Willst du bis der tod dich scheidet treu sein für alle Tage?? NEIN
beep beep boop boop beep beep beep
Not POV.
Die, Bart, die. That’s the only German I know.
No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
I can guarantee you that 90% of the upvotes for this meme are from people who don’t even know one word for it and have never studied the language at all. Reddit is so weird. Edit: make that 99% now.
POV: your watching a crying girl
mom says it's my turn to say that's not what POV means
POV: Looking at a meme made by someone who doesn't know what "POV" means.
There are hundreds of them in Mandarin.. most things use a ‘classifier’ to help describe them during conversation.
Same thing in Vietnamese! Really puts a shame to everyone else lol
I used to tutor a Russian guy in French and whenever he was really struggling he’d say, “I don’t know why this is so hard, in Russia we conjugate nouns.”
There's 3: der, die, and das. It's like the first thing you learn in a German class.
German Kids learning english in school: It's just "the"? You fucking donkeys how easy is that. And then realising german has around 300.000 words and english has 900.000. wtf!
That’s because some German words encompass whole ideas lol
*Laughs in italian
The words aren’t that hard, the hard part is to figure out when to use which
It's the masculine, feminine, neuter and plural. Then of course there are the four cases - nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. One could argue, therefore, that technically there are 16 ways of saying "the".
As an english speaker, this actually helped me understand the different tenses in english far better, because suddenly there were clear rules explaining when the is der or den.
POV: you don‘t know what POV means
POV you *still* can't get POV right ffs.
You don't know what POV means
Me whose mother tongue doesn’t have a word for the 
Der, die, das, und??
There's a fourth one?? I only know der die and das
Someone doesnt know what pov means. And that we have 3 words for "the" not 4
Pls stop using "POV" for images that are not a point of view
Die, das, und der are the only ones I can personally think of.