1. Word Gender
der, die, das

2. 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”.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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.

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

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

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

9. Neutral
Replace the “das” with “ein.”

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

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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?”