Second 50 German Nouns - Gender Quiz
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This is the second set of fifty common nouns in quiz form.
You can always click on the "I give up, show me the answers" button in order to study the genders before tackling each set of 10 nouns.
Some Patterns to Note in This Quiz:
a
All words ending in -schaft are
feminine nouns
. An important example in this quiz is
die Freundschaft
.
b
Combined words in German have a gender that is based on the last word in the combination. One can therefore derive genders from that last word: since we say
das Buch
, we also say
das Lehrbuch
and
das Arbeitsbuch
. All three are neuter nouns. The same pattern of gender derivation may be observed in the words
der Tag
(day) and
der Geburtstag
(birthday)
.
Similarly, since the word for
subject
is
das Fach
, the words for school subject and favourite subject have the same gender:
das Schulfach
(school subject) and
das Lieblingsfach
(favourite subject) respectively.
c
Most words referring to times of day are masculine. In this quiz, you will notice the following examples of this tendency:
der Tag
(day)
,
der Morgen
(morning)
,
der Mittag
(midday)
,
der Vormittag
(morning, time before noon)
,
der Nachmittag
(afternoon) and
der Abend
(evening)
.
d
All words ending in -ung are without exception feminine. In this quiz, there are three examples of this helpful rule:
die Lösung
(solution)
,
die Endung
(ending) and die
Pluralbildung
(plural form)
.
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