The League of Nations although had enjoyed limited success, was a failure because of the selfishness displayed by the European powers. The Treaty of Versailles lacked practicality and ultimately failed at ‘addressing the causes of conflict and restoring peace and normality’, because there was a World War II.

Its “war guilt” article humiliated Germany by forcing it to accept all blame for the war, and it imposed disastrously costly war reparations that destroyed both the post-World War I German economy and the democratic Weimar Republic.

The Treaty of Versailles has been criticized as a vindictive agreement that violated the spirit of Wilson’s Fourteen Points. The harsh terms hurt the German economy in the 1920s and contributed to the popularity of leaders such as Hitler who argued for the restoration of German honor through remilitarization.

In German, gender is defined not by the gender of the noun, but by the meaning and the form of the word. Genders in German were originally intended to signify three grammatical categories that words could be grouped into. The three categories were: endings that indicated that a word was of neutral origin.

All German nouns are included in one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. However, the gender is not relevant to the plural forms of nouns.

The main and most important reason is that Mädchen ends in ‘chen’ and nouns which are diminutives and end in ‘chen’ are always neuter. As for girls, the word Mädchen is still neuter for two reasons, a) because it ends in ‘chen’, b) because nouns ending in ‘chen’ don’t change in the plural.

All forms, plural, translation, definition, downloads, voice output….DeclensionMädchen.

Usage notes. Since Mädchen is a grammatically neuter noun, all preceding articles, determiners, and adjectives take neuter forms: ein kleines Mädchen (“a little girl”). This rule is followed throughout all registers of German. Mädchen is typically used to refer to young women up to the age of 20 (or 25 at most).

Junge is the German word for a young male person – a boy. The opposite of ein Mädchen – a girl.

Do. Do [Mus.] , machen ,tun. Volunteer.

Because the suffix “chen” turns a word into a diminuitive which are always neutral in German and therefore have the neutral article “ein”. Mädchen belongs to Neutral gender hence the article used is ‘Ein’ and not eine.

There are three main rules to remember when using these diminutive endings: they always make a noun neuter, regardless of what gender the original word was. they do not change in the plural form, eg das Mädchen (the girl), die Mädchen (the girls)

Ein is used for masculine and neuter nouns. “One man” is masculine so it would be ein Mann, while “one house” is neuter so it would be ein Haus. Eine is used for feminine nouns. If the noun is in the nominative case, the articles are ein in masculine and neuter, and eine in feminine.

The real German word for ‘gender’ is das Geschlecht. So if you see an asterisk, an underscore, or a capital letter in the middle of a German word, you know that this is gender-neutral language in action in German. Keep learning German with us!

The three gender markers that mean the (singular) in German are der (masculine), die (feminine), and das (neuter). The plural form of the definite article is die. English has only one gender marker for the definite article of all nouns, namely the.

der, die, das! Der indicates that the following noun is masculine [M]. Die, that the noun is feminine [F]. Das, that the noun is neuter [N].

Both Old English and Old Norse had gender, but sometimes their genders contradicted each other. In order to simplify communication, gendered nouns simply disappeared. Of course, gender did not disappear entirely. We still have gendered pronouns in English: he, she and it.

English doesn’t really have a grammatical gender as many other languages do. It doesn’t have a masculine or a feminine for nouns, unless they refer to biological sex (e.g., woman, boy, Ms etc). So gendered language is commonly understood as language that has a bias towards a particular sex or social gender.