I know there are certain ways to guess the gender (e.g. -er endings are usually masculine, -ung feminine and loan words neutral) but often times I'm just butchering the whole sentence by not knowing the correct articles.

Let me demonstrate my frustration: in many cultures the moon is considered "feminine", but in German it has masculine article!

Bitte, hüfe!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You just have to learn them with the word. Reading more can help as you will see the article in context and it may be easier for you to develop the association instead of learning the word in a vacuum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah I've been reading "easy german" news to form a bit more association with the words. Guess there is no way around it, got to keep practicing!