10-25-2024, 12:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-25-2024, 12:39 PM by Kernelpanic.)
Just a note for those who want to learn German grammar: In German there is no fixed rule for the use of articles, one just have to know it (learn it by heart). 
Mark Twain - The Awful German Language
Surely there is not another language that is so slip-shod
and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
One is washed about in it, hither and hither, in the most
helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a
rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the
general rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he
turns over the page and reads, “Let the pupil make careful
note of the following exceptions."
He runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions
to the rule than instances of it.
Mark Twain - The Awful German Language
Surely there is not another language that is so slip-shod
and systemless, and so slippery and elusive to the grasp.
One is washed about in it, hither and hither, in the most
helpless way; and when at last he thinks he has captured a
rule which offers firm ground to take a rest on amid the
general rage and turmoil of the ten parts of speech, he
turns over the page and reads, “Let the pupil make careful
note of the following exceptions."
He runs his eye down and finds that there are more exceptions
to the rule than instances of it.