In German, professional titles and nouns reflect the gender of a person. A male doctor is an Arzt, and a female doctor is an Arztin. Most job vacancies use only male nouns, and the national ...

The University of Cambridge in England is reportedly teaching students in a German class to adopt new gender-neutral versions of plural nouns in a bid to be more inclusive. The university ...

In Germany, the debate about gender-neutral and inclusive language is complicated by grammar. Just as in many other languages, gender in German isn't denoted by personal pronouns alone.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. All nouns in German are either masculine, feminine or neuter. When you learn that the word for dog is Hund ...

Overlearner shared a humorous video in which he had a conversation with himself in English but in the very distinctive grammar used in German. The results are disconcertingly confusing ...

A fun and lively song that explains that German nouns are either masculine, feminine or neuter gender. The lyrics name different body parts and their correct definite article. A group of children ...

Much of that conversation has centered on language: Unlike English, German has no equivalent to “they/them” for a personal pronoun, and most nouns referring to people are gendered as male or ...

Both German and English can create compound words out of most parts of speech, not just nouns, and English sometimes hyphenates them (“full-time,” “snow-white”) or even writes them as one ...

German nouns are all male, female or neuter, and the pronouns and adjectives applied to them vary accordingly. The country is now trying to work out how to modernise its language at a time when ...