The "u" in non-american english

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fmc83 said:

c03n3nj0 said:

 

So does Spanish and German, and tons of others, not challenging at all for me.

What does annoy me is how it is das Maedchen (the girl) instead of die in German (das is neutral and die is feminine) never got that. So I always forget and get it wrong... 

Cool, that you learn German.

I can help you out with your problem:

the ending -chen in German is always used to make a word sound smaller or cuter. In Middle-High-German there was "Maid", a common word for a woman (in english it was/is maiden).

So if you see a word like Mädchen with an -chen at the end it always has a neutral gender with "das".

Problems do occure if some possesive pronouns come into play. With Mädchen you would use "ihr". But "ihm" (the male version) is correct as well, as the possesive pronouns of the neutral gender are male (it still sounds awkward, if you would use it with for "Mädchen".

 

So much about English being complicated^^

 

And by the way the Sun is not male but female in German :P

Got it.  -chen = das. Thanks. ^_^