nah dude who tf made german people do this to themselves, why is all this??

@dogo it's really easy with one simple trick:

grow up speaking the language

@noiob i need to know what ur secret is to learning noun genders, then everything else kind of fits in place

@dogo there is none it's really just practice

funny thing is in French all the genders are different so I know the pain

@noiob hum, really?? wild. what do u do with a first time encounter word?

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@dogo usually the articles or other context makes it obvious, there's some consistency with endings or the word is a composite (we have a lot of those) and thus has the gender of the last word

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