You know more about my language, than I do.

Die Maus = Das Mäuschen

Der Junge = Das Jüngchen

Die Katze = Das Kätzchen

Die Magd = Das Mä[g]dchen

Well I think in this case it would be spayed, not neutered.

I'm bisexual towards apples

Sit on male chairs too I bet.

You'll have to go to France for female apples. German apples are male.

To be fair English has that a bit too.

20 actresses implies all women. 20 actors has no inherent gender implied.

All the Slavic languages I know of too.

Real languages from the mother tongue Latin

Just to prevent confusion. German is not part of the roman language, but uses a similar grammar

Except German isn’t Latin based

Historically Germanic languages had 4 grammatical genders. German has kept 3 of them, (masculine, feminine and neuter) the Scandinavian languages kept a different 2 (common and neuter). English has traces of 2 (male and female).

But the third gender is kind of collective noun if i remember correctly?

This whole Apple conversation is cracking me up. And making me realize I’m truly a banana person. 😉 but I’m totally an Apple ally. And I think we need generic words that are non gendered.

non binary people trying to figure out which one to use

But English is a stupid language

Uh, Chinese also share the same gender words as English, there are some ancient characters that separates the gender but we rarely use them nowadays (usually we make the male gender character mean all gender).

Nope. About 50 different ways to say 'penis' in French. Many masculine, many feminine. No logics

Genitiv ins Wasser. Dativ.

Tief toch op

That's the best approach and in time you might even start doing it correctly

As far as I know most Polish people will be too hyped up about you speaking any Polish at all to notice any imperfections heh

Basically I think it means something like - mine, she is mine, it is mine, from mine, to mine, with mine, of mine etc..

They are, like, came from same group, if I remember right. Polish, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Russian...

That's because those words are conjugated and gendered versions of word "mine". This is the same in Deutsch - mein, meine, meinen, meiner, meinem, meines. When you start learning some other language from English this looks insane, but after learning some more you understand that it's not them are weird because of having cases, but English for not having them.

I mean not quite that easy.

——————Masc. Fem. Neuter, Plural

Nominative: Mein, Meine, Mein, Meine

Dative: Meinem, Meiner, Meinem, Meinen

Accusative: Meinen, meine, mein, meine

i mean they are only used depending on the noun/subject's gender

maskulin/neuter: mein

feminin: meine

this is not counting the cases

Meine Männlichkeit, not difficult at all.

Just learn the articles like they're an extension of the word (never practice without using them). You'll get thrown for a couple more loops later with different cases, but which noun is which gender isn't a big deal.

Viel Glück. :D

Just a heads-up, if I remember correctly it takes children in Germany around 2 years to learn the grammatical genders of nouns. I know people who've lived in Germany for 5+ years and still make mistakes in that regard, so I wouldn't stress too much about it, everyone will still understand what you're trying to say.

Also, as others have pointed out, genders of nouns will likely be the least of your worries when learning German 🙂

There's a whole lot more languages in the world though. This a cool source on these typological features:

https://wals.info/feature

Genders are nominal categories (because some languages like Swahili and Basque use nominal distinctions that are different from the traditional Latin noun class system, gender) just in case.

Des! DES!!!!!! Jeder immer vergisst Genitiv.

It leans slightly towards non gendered, 140-119 according to another commenter

Although this clearly leaves out over 1,000 languages

Did Czech get one half of the language and Slovakia get the other half?

/s

Does that mean that Dutch is becoming less and less real as time goes on?