Der, die, das... it matters!

German language can be really funny, especially when one does not know it well.

So in German there are articles - definite and indefinite, masculine, feminine and neuter: der, die, das, ein, eine, ein. Everyone knows that already after first lesson. But sometimes it is easy to forget they use variants...

German is also known for its looong words (I played with it in Yahoo Babel Fish: Fallschirmhauptlandungkreis :)) which are the result of a concatenation of nouns and relations between them. One can easily say: das Tagebuch, the diary, because of der Tag and das Buch. The day's book. Clear. Sonnenklar. More examples? das Tagelohn, the workday, das Tagesanbruch, the dawn, die Tageszeitung, the newspaper, die Tagesordung, the day order... and so on.

The thing is, that last two are feminine. And the s letter, for example in Tagesordung is a variant.



Today I realized that hit is feminine masculine (thank you meine Bruder!!, even here I made an error!). But before I laughed my ass out :) Tschüs!