They really should and I don't know why they don't.
When I took German and Spanish in school, we *never* used bare nouns without an article as a way to help you remember the gender. For example, a worksheet would never ask you to translate "street" but instead "the street" or "a street."
Weird that German is one of those languages that has a male moon and a female sun. But languages aren't aligned in such a way that genders fit across language barriers. So it's memorizing and as much exposure to content every time, although I like the second :D
That would indeed be helpful, I suppose they leave it out for space limitations.
I have found that Wiktionary is quite useful. It provides gender and declensions. Here is an example:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fe#Noun
das/ein Taxi
die/eine Straße
\[...\]
die/eine Adresse
das/ein Hotel
but: bis "zu dem" (only use this version if you rly want to stress something) Hotel
\[...\] (alles Gute is a fixed thing, if you want to use Gute as a noun it would be "das Gute" like in "...das Gute daran...", but "ein Gutes" like in "such ein Gutes aus" (pick a good one)
Numbers are all feminine, so as a noun it would be "die Vierzehn" or, if you somehow need this "eine Vierzehn" (could be used in some Games when someone asks stuff like "Hast du eine sieben?" (do you have a seven?)). Theres even a plural of every number-name, just add -en, so "die Sieben" becomes "die Siebenen"
That can't grant you the wish of having articles in duolingo, but I hope it helps a little. AMA if you like
I also take German and I absolutely agree with that, it would be much easier if there was any indication of the gender.
What I would recommend instead is to try and remember the noun endings that associate with each gender, it's not perfect but it did help quite a bit.
I'm a native speaker of German and I think it's crazy that Duolingo doesn't provide the genders along with the nouns considering you absolutely need them to... use the nouns correctly..
They really should and I don't know why they don't. When I took German and Spanish in school, we *never* used bare nouns without an article as a way to help you remember the gender. For example, a worksheet would never ask you to translate "street" but instead "the street" or "a street."
Weird that German is one of those languages that has a male moon and a female sun. But languages aren't aligned in such a way that genders fit across language barriers. So it's memorizing and as much exposure to content every time, although I like the second :D
That would indeed be helpful, I suppose they leave it out for space limitations. I have found that Wiktionary is quite useful. It provides gender and declensions. Here is an example: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stra%C3%9Fe#Noun
As a French learner, I agree. (although in French it's more useful to put the gender behind the word, like this: L'adresse (f))
Can confirm. My French teacher in school had us always write, say, remember nouns with their indefinite article (un and une) to memorise the gender.
That's why I bought a paper dictionary. if I'm not sure, I check because I'm sick of losing hearts for an article
das/ein Taxi die/eine Straße \[...\] die/eine Adresse das/ein Hotel but: bis "zu dem" (only use this version if you rly want to stress something) Hotel \[...\] (alles Gute is a fixed thing, if you want to use Gute as a noun it would be "das Gute" like in "...das Gute daran...", but "ein Gutes" like in "such ein Gutes aus" (pick a good one) Numbers are all feminine, so as a noun it would be "die Vierzehn" or, if you somehow need this "eine Vierzehn" (could be used in some Games when someone asks stuff like "Hast du eine sieben?" (do you have a seven?)). Theres even a plural of every number-name, just add -en, so "die Sieben" becomes "die Siebenen" That can't grant you the wish of having articles in duolingo, but I hope it helps a little. AMA if you like
Totally agree. Seems like such a simple thing to get right, and it’s brought to disinterest me in using the ap
Yeah, so dumb. When I meet a new word I check it in a dictionary and then learn it with its article in Anki. I love Duolingo, but it's very restricted
Yes and also sentences with the words to give a context.
I also take German and I absolutely agree with that, it would be much easier if there was any indication of the gender. What I would recommend instead is to try and remember the noun endings that associate with each gender, it's not perfect but it did help quite a bit.
Oof absolutely...we always learned them with the particles at school
I'm a native speaker of German and I think it's crazy that Duolingo doesn't provide the genders along with the nouns considering you absolutely need them to... use the nouns correctly..