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Der official help username n/a with his German homework thread

So like I'm almost done with my German homework. I only have 2 questions left and like I need your help. please. So like you have to fill in the blank, and if you guys don't help me I'm ****ed, because my German teacher is ****ed in the head and if I don't finish this I think he will castrate me and I don't want that to happen.

3. Ich _______ Dieter

6. Britta ist _______ Mädchen
 
^ Don't listen to this guy, he's setting you up for grief.

I always thought it interesting that the gender of the article for Mädchen is neuter. What up with them Germans?

The -chen part is (like -lein) a "diminutive" suffix that can be appended to a noun, making it a "small" instance of same. Those will all be grammatical neuters. Cf. -kin in English. The Mäd- part is etymologically the same as the English "maid".
 
So like I'm almost done with my German homework. I only have 2 questions left and like I need your help. please. So like you have to fill in the blank, and if you guys don't help me I'm ****ed, because my German teacher is ****ed in the head and if I don't finish this I think he will castrate me and I don't want that to happen.

3. Ich bist Dieter

6. Britta ist nicht Mädchen

Obviously :ninja::hiding: