Rule for neuter · das

Colors and language names

Colors & languages → das · 89%

The rule, in plain language

When you turn a color adjective or a language name into a noun, the result is almost always neuter: das Grün (the color green), das Rot (the color red), and das Englisch (English, the language) follow this pattern. You basically capitalize the adjective and it automatically becomes das. Watch out for Orange though: in our data it shows up as an exception, feminine (die Orange), because the same word also names the fruit orange, not just the color - context matters. This rule is small (only 0.3% of frequent nouns, 8 words total), but worth remembering whenever you're talking about colors or foreign languages.

In the A1-B1 vocabulary of the Genau course, this rule covers 8 words (0.3%) and has 1 exceptions - all listed below.

Representative examples

The exceptions

These contradict the rule - learn them as-is:

All course words that follow this rule

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