Rule for feminine · die

Women and people

Words for women (and “Person”) are always die.

The rule, in plain language

In German, nouns that refer to women follow natural gender and are almost always feminine: die Frau (woman/wife) and die Mutter (mother) are clear examples. There's also a neat grammatical quirk: die Person stays feminine even when you're talking about a man - “er ist eine interessante Person” is correct German, because a word's grammatical gender doesn't change with the sex of the person it describes. This rule covers only 0.3% of frequent nouns (8 words total), but within that small group there isn't a single exception, so you can trust it whenever you're talking about a woman or using the word Person.

In the A1-B1 vocabulary of the Genau course, this rule covers 8 words (0.3%) and has no exceptions.

Representative examples

All course words that follow this rule

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