Why do all German language resources suggest learning nouns with "der, die and das"? Assuming the noun is singular, a noun heard in context with either "die" and "das" can have its gender uniquely inferred. But "der" could be male or female. So why not learn "den, die and das"?
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That's understood, but why make it harder for the student by choosing a case without a one-to-one mapping between articles and genders?
What makes in worse is that sometimes I read "der is masculine" or "this is a der-word" which is false in more cases than it's true! Teaching that "der" is an indication of a word being either masculine or feminine. (All this is assuming singular number.)
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Not sure if it makes it easier, but I think the assumption is that you learn the words in the Nominativ case, which is the base case. And then you learn rules about what the article turns into for each of the other cases.
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Unlike in Russian where you have so many cases, rules and exceptions that as a learner it’s easier to just memorize the full declination for each word.
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