Learn German | Der, die oder das Nutella? Foreign Words + German Genders | Deutsch Für Euch 107

Is it der, die oder das Nutella? And who even cares? In today's episode I try to clear up the mystery of what happens when foreign words that are imported into German are assigned an article/grammatical gender. How do we decide which gender norms an English noun will have to conform to? ...Wait. Wrong topic.

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[DeutschFuerEuch]

Germans: Which articles do you use for IKEA and Nutella?
Everyone else: Feel like giving up yet?

[colinsweetman]

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[danlyle]

When I heard that Nutella could take any of the articles, I felt that "die Nutella" was right. I think I chose it that way because of "die Schokolade" and "die Haselnuss". I figured if those are both feminine then the combination of those could be too! 😂

[AC-mvou]

I always imagined that somewhere in a local Rathaus, wise german scholars decided genders for English import words. Today has been a great disappointment for me...

[m.h.]

I am a software developer and I can say with some conviction, that "Die Applikation" is the correct origin of "Die App", as "Applikation" was and still is a term used in german software development. Though I can totally understand, that this is not widely known, as programmers always had their own language, which had way more english words, that were "germanized" long before they became common/daily language for others.

[SimonS]

Another word with various articles: apart from „die Straßenbahn“, you can also use the international word for this mode of transport - „die Tram“, however, once you're in Switzerland, it is „das Tram“.
Meanwhile, in Luxembourgish, which may, or may not be "just" a dialect of the German language, you say „d'Tram“, with Tram being a masculine noun, so „der Tram“ in Standard German.

[marof]

When I started to learn German 4 years ago and I had lots of frustration with Articles finally I decided to give up with the article(except some rules). Now I have B1 German Certification and studying B2 and still don't know many German articles but I'm able to communicate and keep a long conversation going with native speakers. I realized even native speakers don't know many articles as well and make mistakes. I appriciate your hard work anyway

[sayitinswedish]

This is really interesting. In Swedish we would just take what feels right (and/or the form that gains the largest amount of followers). When it comes to brand names, we would most likely treat it as such and not use a gender at all. In German, der IKEA(möbelmarkt) or das IKEA(möbel-/einrichtungshaus) would make sense. But, come one, "die"? Echt jetzt? 😂

[wsgthebg]

It is quite entertaining to watch this as a czech speaker and comparing which words match gender and which don't.
By the way, IKEA and Nutella are feminine in czech. Probably because of the feminine "-a" ending and the fact, that czech indicates gender by word endings and not by particles, just reinforce it.

[richardkubny]

Last week I learned that Mozzarella is "der". I decided to just gave up with the article genders...

[synergyzer]

'Die Garage' ist maskulin auf Portugiesisch: "A garagem"... Glücklich für mich.

[beckybaker]

In my German classes, we were told that the majority of loan words are neuter, but now I’m really not sure that’s right

[MickeyKnox]

Leute die DER IKEA sagen, also generell Geschäften mit Eigennamen einen Artikel geben wollen, sagen auch "Da vorne ist DER Hans" an Stelle von "Da vorne ist Hans" - fürchterbar.
Und bei Nutella ist es ja wohl klar ... DIE Nutella - sie ist süß und du liebst sie abgöttisch, trotzdem ist sie schlecht für dich, muss also weiblich sein ;)

[MarcoScetta]

What about the spanish word "mate"? the popular drink

[maggieborinskiy]

i was just thinking about this question today, about bunch of different words, THANK YOU, it’s like you’ve read my mind o_O

[lautaromartinezponti]

Well, I think this kind of words rely in a huge extent on the purpose of it.

For example, in spanish, if i think of nutella as a "cream", which is femenine (la crema), I would call it "la nutella/die nutella"; but if I would like to have it as a dessert (yummy!), which is masculine (el postre), then I would call it "el nutella/der nutella".

In conclusión, it depends in how do you see it at the very moment.

[BobbyBermuda]

Octopus is *Greek :) which is why the proper plural is octopuses, or if you're feeling fancy, octopodes.

[PuzzleQodec]

Somehow I expected 'das Kraken' instead of 'der Oktopus'. That would have been hilarious.

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