Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language

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    5 months ago

    No, you don’t memorize it. You memorize the words and how they sound, then based on how their endings sound, you know their gender. You don’t have to maintain a dictionary of words to their gender. There are a few exceptions and you memorize those, but for the most part all you need to memorize is a few rules.

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        5 months ago

        Not really. In case you’re not catching the implication, it means there is no more memorization of words’ gender in Spanish than there is in English, for instance.

        You simply do not need to memorize gender as it can and is derived on the spot from other memorized info, ie the word itself.