General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

It is a recurring problem when non-native German speakers encounter unfamiliar terms. In German, there is no logical relationship to help you know the gender of nouns, you just have to know it, and if you get it wrong, you easily end up with the wrong meaning.

Tis a great boon that the English language has largely abandoned gender applicable to inanimate nouns. Still a few exceptions, like ships being she.