NEUTER NOUN
Neuters: Diminutives (signaled by the sufix -chen or -lein) generic animal names that includes both sexes, cities, countries (but: die Schweiz, die Türkei, die Tschechoslowakei, die USA (plural), metals (but: der Stahl), letters of the alphabet, colours, languages, an abstract idea derived from an adjective.
Nouns ending in -um -tum (but: der Reichtum, der Irrtum), nouns ending -en that are derived from a verb, (other nouns ending in -en tend to be masculine.).
Examples in German:
| Europe |
Europa |
| Austria |
Österreich |
| Helgoland |
Helgoland |
| the beautiful Saxonia |
das schöne Sachsen |
| our dear Germany |
unser liebes Deutschland |
| sleeping |
das Schlafen |
| the meal |
das Essen |
| buying |
das Einkaufen |
| the girl |
das Mädchen |
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