Learn Noun Groups

Memorizing categories of nouns that have a particular gender is obviously a big time-
saver over memorizing each individual noun.

Here is a nearly exhaustive list of various categories of nouns that can be associated
with one of the three genders with few exceptions:

Masculine (der):

 Male persons and animals

 days of the week, months of the year
 seasons, and most weather elements
 car makes
 monetary units
 non-German river names
 rocks and minerals
 mountains and mountain ranges
 and alcoholic and plant-based drinks

Feminine (die):

 Female persons and animals

 Rivers within Germany, Austria, Switzerland
 Airplanes, motorcycles, ships
 Numbers used as nouns
 Trees, fruits, and flowers
 Nouns formed from measurement or size adjectives

Neuter (das):

 Young persons and baby animals

 metals and chemical elements
 names of continents, cities, provinces, and most countries
 scientific units & measurements
 letters of the alphabet and music notes
 hotels, cafes, restaurants, and movie theaters
 other parts of speech used as nouns (gerunds, colors, languages, English
-ing forms).

Learn Noun Forms

Learning the noun groups is very helpful, but memorizing noun forms is even more
so!
Again, it is so much more efficient to memorize over-arching noun gender categories
vs. the gender of each, isolated German noun.

Important note: Most of the time, the various guidelines of the noun groups and the
noun forms peacefully coexist. But, if there’s a conflict, most noun form guidelines
you’ll see below trump those for noun groups!

The important part of any noun (for determining its gender, anyway) is the end of it,
or, its suffix. There are certain suffixes that are almost exclusively masculine,
feminine, and neuter.

Masculine: -ant, -ast, -ich, -ig, -ismus, -ling, -or, -us

Feminine: -a, -anz, -enz, -ei, -ie, -heit, -keit, -ik, -sion, -tion, -sis, -tät, -ung, -ur, schaft

Neuter: -chen, -lein, -icht, -il, -it, -ma, -ment, -tel, -tum, -um

With just the fewest of exceptions in any of these instances, you can know which
gender to use when you come across nouns with these suffixes!

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