Timeline for Unknown gender, known case, best guess for article would be?
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| May 31, 2011 at 23:41 | history | edited | Phira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 31, 2011 at 22:45 | comment | added | Debilski | Well, you should have a slight tendency towards a gender after having used the language a bit. It’s not like German speakers simply know the gender, it is just that their intuition to using the correct form is better than yours. However, I don’t think that always using ‘das’ will strengthen your intuition. Just use what you think it should be and you don’t need to change the strategy once you know what it is. | |
| May 31, 2011 at 22:20 | comment | added | Sean | So what's the alternative? (a) don't converse until you've learned all definite articles of all words, (b) limit your conversation to only those words for which you know the definite article, or (c) choose a random definite article when you don't know it? | |
| May 31, 2011 at 16:13 | history | answered | Phira | CC BY-SA 3.0 |