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Note: Book pdf is at end, you can download it. Determining Gender For the most part, the gender of English nouns is based upon being male, female, or an inanimate object. German is similar only in a small degree. Many nouns that refer to males or females are masculine or feminine respectively. But this similarity to English soon ends. The gender of most German nouns can be determined by examining their makeup. Certain prefixes, suffixes, and structural elements are signals that a noun is a specific gender. And that gender doesn’t necessarily have to do with the noun being male, female, or inanimate. Masculine nouns can be identified by the following characteristics:  1. Nouns that refer to males: der Vater, der Junge (father, boy)  2. Many nouns that end in -er, -en, and -el: der Lehrer, der Wagen, der Mantel (teacher, car, coat)  3. Days of the week, months, and seasons: der Montag, der Januar, der Herbst (Monday, January, autumn)  4. Foreign words with the accent ...