Is It A Gay?

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It was a calm evening in the nice apartment of my pupil Krishna (not the real name). His house maid was cooking as we discussed about the nouns.

The young man who comes from Hyderabad, India, read the book carefully. He enjoyed in finding the German names of the pictures. There are some pictures of objects which are usually available in a class room. Board, sponge, paper, pencil, course book, bag, etc..

I told Krishna that nouns in German have an article and their first alphabet is written in capital. So: board = die Tafel, sponge = der Schwamm, paper = das Papier, pencil = der Bleistift, course book = das Kursbuch, bag = die Tasche, etc.. In English there is only one article and no need to be written in capital. So: the board, the sponge, the paper, the pencil, the course book, the bag, etc..

Aarau Exterior View

Krishna nodded as a sign that he understood. He loves German because he has a best friend in Switzerland, who is like a sister for him and he had a sweet memory with a nice Swiss girl in a tunnel, who was so kind in helping him to find the direction. :-) It was in the Schaffhausen railway station. Yes, Krishna has got lost as he wanted to go to Aarau, the capital of the Canton / State of Aargau in Switzerland. Therefore he thought that it would be great if he can speak German. :-)

Then Krishna should practice to read all nouns including the articles of those nouns. First he listened to the recording, and then repeated after it. There is word accent in German. Krishna should mark the syllable, which is stressed.

I asked Krishna to remember that all original articles of the nouns are in nominative. This is one case in the German grammar. The articles of the nouns can change if the nouns are in other cases like accusative, dative and genitive. Therefore he should be careful.

Krishna nodded as a sign that he understood.

Further I asked him to pay attention again to the articles of the nouns, because it is related to the cases. I told him that nouns in German have 3 types of gender. He was surprised. :-) I mentioned them: feminine, masculine, ... . Then I asked him, “Do you know the third?” The engineer of electricity answered doubtfully, “Is it a gay?” :-)

No, Krishna. It is neutral. :-)

The article of feminine nouns: die, masculine nouns: der, neutral nouns: das. They are all in nominative. 

In accusative the articles will be: die (feminine), den (masculine), das (neutral). 

In dative they will be: der (feminine), dem (masculine), dem (neutral). 

In genitive they will be: der (feminine), des (masculine), des (neutral). 

So from the above examples it means: bag and board are feminine, pencil and sponge are masculine, course book and paper are neutral.

Well, the maid has finished the cooking and the dinner for Krishna was ready. But he must wait until the German course is finish and I go home. :-)

You have read text 47.
Please read text 48: Bella Should Know That

Back to text 46: Translation Problems: The Song “Großer Gott, Wir Loben Dich” from Kidung Jemaat No. 5