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Neuter gender for nouns referring to children
In German we say der Mann/die Frau, but then we say das Kind/das Mädchen, so I got two questions:
Are there particular historic and/or etymological reasons for this?
"Das Mädchen" refers to a ...
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What is the origin of the rules about the capitalization of the first letter of each noun?
To my knowledge, German is the only language which capitalize the first letter of each of its nouns. Why is there such a rule?
Meines Wissens ist Deutsch die einzige Sprache, in der der erste ...
