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Exceptions are rare enough that the patterns still save far more time than memorizing every noun individually.","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/tips-tricks-to-learn-german-articles-der-die-das\/#faq-question-1786091066956","position":4,"url":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/en\/tips-tricks-to-learn-german-articles-der-die-das\/#faq-question-1786091066956","name":"Does it matter if I get the gender wrong?","answerCount":1,"acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Getting a gender wrong won't usually stop someone from understanding you, but consistent practice with the patterns above will make your German sound more natural and help with correct case endings later on.","inLanguage":"en-US"},"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55460"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87579,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55460\/revisions\/87579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingoda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}