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Warum ist "Tsunami" männlich?

Deutsch ist meine Muttersprache. Der Begriff "Tsunami" wurde, glaube ich, allseits bekannt durch die massiven Erdbeben im Indischen Ozean 2004 und Nordost-Japan 2011. Die japanische Sprache ...
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Deklination von "Dona Scripta"

Vereinzelt wird "Dona Scripta" als Bezeichnung für eine Festschrift (Sammlung von Beiträgen verschiedener Autoren zu Ehren eines Jubilars) verwendet. Aber wie wird "Dona Scripta" grammatikalisch ...
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Computerscience Branch definite Article ( Gender ) [duplicate]

Which definite Article is correctly used for the word "branch"? Examples: "Ich werde die Branch auschecken." or "Ich werde den Branch auschecken." I am a german native speaker, but I can't really ...
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Welches Genus bekommen Fremdwörter? [duplicate]

Als Jugendlicher im Ausland wurde es mir eingetrichtert, im Deutschen würden Fremdwörter stets das sächliche Genus bekommen. Inzwischen scheint es mir so, als hätte man diese Faustregel komplett über ...
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Warum ist "Bill of Rights" feminin?

Ich habe gesehen, dass die amerikanische "Bill of Rights" laut Wikipedia feminin ist und musste mich fragen, warum das so ist. Die meisten von anderen Sprachen stammenden Wörter sind sächlich und die ...
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Gender of foreign words and loan words [duplicate]

Note: I am not talking about new words which don't have an article yet. I am interested in talking about foreign terms and concepts in German. My examples are all in French, but could be in Italian or ...
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Why is it "der Bikini"? Shouldn't the noun be feminine?

I can understand that some German nouns (e.g. Mädchen) might just always have been whatever gender the noun is, and the explaintion is lost to the mists of time. But Bikinis were invented in the 1940s....
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How is the gender of new words established?

When words are borrowed into German, how is it decided what gender that word should be? I can think of examples with all three genders: der Latte, die Jeans, das Internet. Are there ever ...
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Do Latin loanwords conserve their gender?

When I asked my teacher for the gender of Mensa, she replied that it is feminine, because the Latin word mensa is feminine. When it comes to words that share the same spelling in both German and Latin,...
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