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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