Noun gender and cases in German

Noun gender in German

Nouns in German have gender. Accordingly, things are given one of the three grammatical genders—feminine, masculine, or neuter. Of fact, since the word itself is gendered rather than the item it describes, its gender need not have any bearing on what the noun actually implies. Since they are inanimate objects, the sun and moon, for instance, are genderless in English, yet they are gendered in German as “she” and “he,” respectively. However, that is the reverse in Spanish and French. It’s a good idea to learn the gender of new German nouns at the same time because you’ll need it later. 

According to a partial account of these, male individuals and animals, tools or things that perform tasks, days, months, and seasons, as well as elements of the weather and rivers that are not German, tend to be masculine; female individuals and animals, the majority of German rivers (with the notable exceptions of the Rhein and the Main), flowers, trees, and groups of individuals or objects, on the other hand, tend to be feminine; and finally, the majority of inanimate objects, metals, verb infinitives changed into no Additionally, there are some word ends that frequently serve as gender cues.

Cases in German

German has 4 cases: nominative, accusative, genitive and dative. That is one more than in English, where the dative case is absent. Confusion is further increased by the fact that we frequently refer to English situations by other names. English speakers frequently refer to the nominative case as subjective (she/he), the accusative case as objective (her/him), and the genitive case as possessive (hers/his). Even for the cases we have, we don’t employ the case system as much in English (at least not in current English). In contrast to German, which also modifies nouns and adjectives and utilises cases to indicate possession and assign indirect objects, English merely changes specific pronouns according to the case system (genitive and dative respectively).