1) Capitalising nouns In German, all nouns are capitalised. Foer example: mein N ame der A pfel 2) German genders Nouns in German are either feminine, masculine or neuter . For exampel Frau - feminine, Mann - masculine, Kind neuter While some nouns (Frau, Mann, ..) have natural gender like in English (a woman is female, a man is male), most nouns have grammatical gender (depends on word ending, or seemingly random). For example Mӓdchen - neuter -> because all words ending in -chen are neuter Wasser - neuter Cola -feminine Saft - masculine It is important to learn every noun along with its gender because parts of German sentences change depending on the gender of their nouns. Indefinite articles - (a/an) ein is used for masculine and neuter nouns - eine is used for feminine nouns. gender indefinite article ...