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German nouns and the
definite article

It is
important to define what a noun is: A noun is the part of speech that names a
person, place, thing, or idea. The following words are Nouns: child, town,
kindness, government, elephant, and Taiwan.

Nouns in
both languages name things, the difference is that all German nouns are
capitalized and have one of three genders: Masculine, feminine and Neuter.

Now lets
define what a definite article means. A definite article is a determiner that
introduces a noun phrase and implies that the thing mentioned has already been
mentioned, or is common knowledge, or is about to be defined.

In German
all nouns are either masculine feminine or neuter. This is called their gender.
In English, all things, for example town, table, book, car, orange are called
it, but in German even words or things have a gender.  

It is very important to know that the gender
of German nouns rarely relates to the sex of the person or thing, it refers to.
For example, in German, the word for “man” is masculine, but the word for girl
is neuter and the word for “person” is feminine.

The
definite article in English is “the” and the definite articles in German is  

Der

Die

Das

“der” is the
definite article used with masculine nouns “die” is the definite article used
with feminine nouns and “das” is the definite article used with neuter nouns.

In German,
the grammatical gender is an element of German grammar, and it is not related
to the meaning of the noun. It is kind of a marker that identifies how the noun
fits into a sentence.

It is
important to remember that nouns in German are always written with a CAPITAL
letter.

Whenever
you are using a noun, you need to know whether it is masculine, feminine or
neuter because this affects the form of other words used with it.

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