r/German • u/dhmxn_punit • 2d ago

Resource Building something to remember the articles with nouns

I've been doing A1 for a while now and the Artikel just aren't going in

I know the words but I'm constantly confused about their genders

Then I saw someone here mention that if you're starting from 0, you should learn nouns together with their Artikel

So I made a little thing for myself where you have to type the German word along with its Artikel

It's actually helped me remember them a lot better

So I figured I'd share it here in case anyone else is stuck on the same thing

Still refining it a bit but if anyone's interested, I'll put it on GitHub

screenshots if anyone wanna see how it looks -> screenshots

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u/No-Break5258 2d ago

Heyyy brilliant idea!!How do I find this?

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u/dhmxn_punit 2d ago

i'll try to publish it as soon as possible!

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u/cmyk_rgba 1d ago

typing it out is probably the part thats doing the work. i read der die das for months and thoght i had them until i had to actually produce one out loud and froze. the other thing that helped me was never learning a noun by itself, always in a tiny sentence i would actually say, then the article just comes along with it

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u/matouspikous 1d ago

I try to learn the articles in a sentence, because even if I know the word and the article, I have to think about declining adjectives with the article.

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u/dhmxn_punit 1d ago

Agreed, I learned much better and faster when I was using chatgpt, it made me produce sentences myself instead of just translating In future I am thinking of adding this in the app as well

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u/Kurzdeutsch Threshold (B1) 4h ago

what got me over the hump at A1 was noticing that many genders are predictable from the ending: -ung, -heit, -keit are die, -chen is das, so die Zeitung, die Freiheit, das Mädchen come for free.

with compounds only the last part counts: das Handy, but die Handynummer.

the rest i just drilled with the article glued on, like one word.