Seriously how do you learn the genders for every word in your second langauge to be fluent?Is there a safe "rule" in yours?I thought in spanish everything ending in -a could be feminine (la) but apparently water is "el agua" and that pissed me off enough
>>225849395Isn't agua still feminine? I thought if a feminine word starts with a, it gets "el" anyway but is otherwise feminine
>>225849395>genders
El agua is feminine but since the A is stressed you change it to el. Same with el hada, el águila and many other words. If you add an adjective then the article goes back to female. La gran agua.
You just know. I look at a table and I know it's feminine.
>>225849395You have to learn what the word sounds like either way and with genders you learn to tell by the way the word sounds.
real life Greek has specific gender designations for cars depending on the maker a Toyota is neuter, but a BMW is feminine a Porsche is feminine, but an Audi is neuter cars are never masculine btw
I am learning german. I just learn the gender along with the word. I don't memorize that dog = Hund. I memorize that dog = der Hund.That way I always know what the gender of a word is.
>>225849452>>225849520uh huh but like what if you've been speaking for a while and come across a word you've never seen before, or an object you never had to mention, in the wild
>>225849395In all latin and most slavic based languages it's the ending of the word and the number of syllables, it's just a phonetical grouping it doesn't mean anything besides when if you refer to a person and his/her title. In German? It's teutonic autism and buttsex. It's random.
>>225849531i would whip out my phone and learn. even if you had to just guess, a german will know what you are saying even if you get the gender of a word wrong.
>>225849395There are rules but most of it comes down to memorization and time.t. Italian, German, English speaker
