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Something in My Eye
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Derinsula, this word I made up while high me and my friends and their friends use apparently means "the island" in German. The spelling of the word is a derinsula.
It's Die Insel
Derinsula, this word I made up while high me and my friends and their friends use apparently means "the island" in German. The spelling of the word is a derinsula.
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.
Blas mir einen, verdammtes Arschloch.
(not literally what you requested, but along those lines)