in German. That is, Dutch has common gender (de) where German has masculine (der) or feminine (die), and Dutch has neuter (het) where German has neuter (das). The exceptions are so few that they can be noted specially, which can be helpful for language learners: de radio : das Radio (radio) de telefoon : das Telefon (telephone) het bericht : der Bericht (report) See also Dutch grammar Grammatical gender References Chapter 2 of van Berkum, J.J.A. (1996) The psycholinguistics of grammatical gender: Studies in language comprehension and production, "The linguistics of gender" (PDF) Dutch grammar Dutch