Grammatical gender is the phenomenon where nouns (things) belong to certain classes. For example, in Spanish: un libro = a book, una casa = a house. Note the difference between un and una.
In this case, un libro is "masculine", and una casa is "feminine". However, there is nothing really masculine about a book or feminine about a house, which is what distinguishes grammatical gender from natural gender. The so-called masculine and feminine distinctions are just grammatical features.
As an English-speaker, you might find this strange, because grammatical gender doesn't exist in English.
Danish has 2 genders, called common and neuter. Some nouns are indicated by en ( = a car); other nouns are preceded by et ( = a house).
There are no rules to show which is en and which is et.
However, around 75% of Danish nouns use en.To help you remember, all et-words are orange throughout the site.
