How do you deal with learning gendered articles? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Lazycog@sopuli.xyz to c/languagelearning@sopuli.xyz

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Wanted to ask for some tips since I'm really struggling with this trying to learn German.

I know there are certain ways to guess the gender (e.g. -er endings are usually masculine, -ung feminine and loan words neutral) but often times I'm just butchering the whole sentence by not knowing the correct articles.

Let me demonstrate my frustration: in many cultures the moon is considered "feminine", but in German it has masculine article!

Bitte, hüfe!

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I tried this strategy as well, but now that I'm at a point where I can indeed communicate with natives I've sadly noticed that not knowing the correct article creates confusion and frustration in the listener when I try bit more advanced conversations.

For my day-to-day interactions I can omit it, but this has kinda halted my learning :(

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