It is a bleak Day. And now a Tomcat has got one of the Fishes and she will surely escape with him. In another Moment, except Help come, the Fishwife will be no more. Let us take him up tenderly, reverently, upon the lowly Shovel, and bear him to his long Rest, with the Prayer that when he rises again it will be a Realm where he will have one good square responsible Sex, and have it all to himself, instead of having a mangy lot of assorted Sexes scattered all over him in Spots. In German, nouns have grammatical gender that most often has nothing to do with natural gender Cf.
Verbs diversify their meanings and their ability to accept objects by combining with prefixes.
You can see that they all share a common root morpheme, therefore a common basic meaning. German sentence structure is defined by the location of the verb and, if it is composed of multiple parts, by these parts. Infinitive phrases, questions, commands, have their own word order rules. About German pronunciation 1. It's all in the vowels . . .