How do you remember gender? | General discussion | Forum

I stumbled upon the following text the other day:

For gender, set up 3 very vivid verbs, for example “bouncing/exploding/melting” that correspond to “male/female/neuter”. For Der Tisch, for example, picture a table bouncing up and down, and for Das Fenster, picture a melting window. These images tend to remain in your memory much longer than abstract concepts like gender.

Since I've had problem remembering gender I believe this might help some of you in the same situation.

Sure, everyone will understand you if you use the wrong one but during an exam you really need to be sure. I've had more than one situation where I'm sure it's das Pferd (or similar) and then become uncertain – was it die Pferd, der Pferd, das Pferd? The more you dwell on it, the more uncertain you become.

Have you tried this method or are you using any other memory techniques?

I continued reading my grammar book after posting this and found der & das Mensch:

The word men, human or human being in German inherits its masculinity. Thus, I know that Mensch will be 'der Mensch' in German. However, it comes to the fact that I arrived knowing that there is also 'das Mensch' in German but has a different meaning. Literally, it means 'slut'.

Raphacam said
This technique sounds really good, where did you find it?

I read it over at Tower of Babelfish.