Word Gender der, die, das

Masculine-der Male people Seasons Days, Months Words ending with-ling, mus Nouns ending with-or Nouns ending with –ant Nouns ending with-us Nouns ending with-ich/ig Nouns ending with-en verbs-but you take off the “en”.

Feminine-die Female people Rivers in Germany Nouns ending with-ei Nouns ending with-schaft Nouns ending with-heit/keit Nouns ending with-ung, (i)tät, ion, ik, ie, enz/anz, ur

Neutral-das Words ending with “a” Words ending with –lein/chen, um, ment, ma, tum Nouns coming from the infinitive word English words with-ing Words starting with -Ge

Key Items to Remember Subject is what the main focus of the sentence is (doing the action), and the indirect object is being affected by a transitive verb.

Indefinite Articles How to say “a” or “an”

Masculine Replace “der” with the word “ein.”

Feminine Replace the word “die” with the word “eine.”

Neutral Replace the “das” with “ein.”

Remember You only need to memorize “ein” and “eine”, but context will be important.

Not to be negative…well sort of, but in a good way Negation Not to be negative…well sort of, but in a good way

Kein-not any-use for amounts, nouns not preceded by articles Follows the same pattern as “ein” Der- “ein” is replaced by “kein” Die- “eine” is replaced by “keine” Das- “ein” is replaced by “kein” Example: Ich habe keine Haustiere. Ich habe kein Geld.

Nicht-not use for non preceded by definite articles, or possessive articles, negate parts of sentences. Ich gehe nicht in die Stadt. Das ist nicht mein Buch. Der Junge ist nicht alt.

Akkusative-Accusative-direct article case “Der changes” to “den”-who is being affected by the verb-receives the action of the verb. Answers the question “who or what is being affected?”