The Whining and Bitching Thread

[Cronopio]

How are German gender-neutral nouns determined? I will never understand why three genders are necessary other than "to confuse people."

Well, apart from nouns that are obviously neither male nor female, you have the words ending with the diminutive suffix -chen or -lein, e.g. Mädchen or Äuglein (from das Auge; don't forget the Umlaut!).

Also, if you're making nouns out of verbs, which is a not too uncommon practice in German, they're mostly neutral, e.g. das Gehen (from the verb gehen), das Warten (from the verb warten), etc.

 

[King Richard]

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[Zephyrus]

Well, apart from nouns that are obviously neither male nor female, you have the words ending with the diminutive suffix -chen or -lein, e.g. Mädchen or Äuglein (from das Auge; don't forget the Umlaut!).

Also, if you're making nouns out of verbs, which is a not too uncommon practice in German, they're mostly neutral, e.g. das Gehen (from the verb gehen), das Warten (from the verb warten), etc.

Also helps with the Latin and Greek loan words not to have to change their gender if they're already neuter.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Boring! Just teach us all how to say "suck my cock you rotten cunt" in German.

 

[Cronopio]

Blas mir einen, verdammtes Arschloch.

(not literally what you requested, but along those lines)

 

[CF87]

If you saw my last picture posted. That's what a shitty as woman can do to you!

 

[Blind Guardian]

German might still have three genders, but unlike Swedish it doesn't have pluralized verbs, lololol what a simpleton language amirite?

 

[Cronopio]

Pluralized verbs? WTF? Example plz.

 

[Blind Guardian]

De gingo.

 

[Cronopio]

For a moment there I thought you confused verbs with adjectives. I stand corrected.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Blas mir einen, verdammtes Arschloch.

(not literally what you requested, but along those lines)

Danke.

 

[Cronopio]

Danke.

Jawohl. Leck mich jetzt an der Rosette.

 

[SentinelSlain]

I can't get the Fallout 3 expansions disk to work. Urgh!

 

[damnromulans]

Hmm, as a native English speaker I would have to say I cannot distinguish the genders of nouns intuitively.

Japanese may have a stupidly complex system of Chinese characters with dozens of different readings for the same character, but at least they recognized the absurdity of gendered nouns and scrapped articles altogether!

My favorite German noun is "der Schnurrbart" (mustache)

 

[unknown]

Meine lieblingsnomen ist Vokuhila

 

[The Butt]

My fucking dad turned the water off to the house while I was in the shower today... then I got soap in my eyes, so I stomped on the floor of the shower in a frantic bout of panic, to let him know it is imperative that he turn it back on.

I sat there for like 10 minutes, eyes burning, stuck in there before he turned it back on. Then I got this lecture about how if I do that again, I'll be kicked the fuck out for "causing damage to his property".

Well... WHO THE FUCK TURNS THE WATER OFF WHEN SOMEONE'S IN THE SHOWER? Or more importantly, who the fuck LEAVES the water off when I yelled that my eyes were fucking burning? I'm dealing with a bunch of knuckle-dragging protohumans here. I need to get the fuck out of this place.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

 

[Zephyrus]

A day in the life in Bumfuck, Ontario.

 

[Cronopio]

How the fuck did you cause damage to his property while showering?

 

[waif]

My favorite German noun is "der Schnurrbart" (mustache)

I vow to use this at least once every day.
DER SCHNURRBART.
JOWOHL, MEIN SCHNURRBART.