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Gender

The grammatical gender of a German noun, together with its case, determines the article, and the endings on the modifiers and adjectives preceding the noun. German has three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter.

Masculine Feminine Neuter
People
Objects

Possessives
Adjectives

der Sohn
der Stuhl

mein Sohn
mein junger Sohn

die Tochter
die Tür

meine Tochter
meine junge Tochter

das Kind
das Buch

mein Kind
mein junges Kind

Summaries
Definite and indefinite articles der-word noun modifier endings ein-word noun modifier endings