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Some Important Things About the German Language

The German noun has three specific grammatical genders - Neuter, Feminine and Masculine. Additionally, German is the only language in the world to capitalise every noun.

a studentof German would do very well to learn German nouns with their defnite article, as the definite article of the German noun corresponds to the gender of the noun. The meaning or form, especially the ending, of a noun can be used to recognise 80% of noun genders. ( Durrell, Martin; Hammer, A.E. (2002), Hammer's German Grammar and Usage (Fourth ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 1–10, ISBN 978-0-07-139654-7 )

Generally, all nouns, of any gender, become die in the plural. However there about a dozen or ways to for the plural of German nouns . The bad news is that only one of the ways - like English - is to add an s.