Nothing for Ungood

Zum Thema “Don’t learn German” ein witziger Weblog-Beitrag eines Amerikaners (John Madison), der zeitweise in Deutschland lebt und seine diesbezüglichen Erfahrungen schildert:

You probably know in German there are three different genders der, das, and die. So for every single noun out there, you need to memorize a gender as well (the are some rules for determining gender, but for every rule there are just as many exceptions as examples that fit, so you still have to memorize every single one individually). But you also need to change the article, based on the case that you are using the noun in. Let’s see what this looks like in German: German Nominative der das die die (pl.) Accusative den das die die Dative dem dem der den Genitive des des der der

Now let’s translate that table into English:

English Nominative the the the the (pl.) Accusative the the the the Dative the … » Vollständiger Artikel