On nouns eg. Leute, Ferien for which only a plural form exists:
If a noun exists only in the plural form, does it have a gender?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?
On nouns for which the plural form does not conform to any of the 8 regular forms
This ist ziemlich interessant. Notieren Sie that such words tend to be of foreign origin, in particular from Greek or Lateinisch. Let's have a look.
die Praxis - Praxen: Ancient Greek πρᾶξις
das Stadion - Stadien: Ancient Greek στάδιον
das Zentrum - Zentren: Latin centrum - Ancient Greek κέντρον
die Basis - Basen: Ancient Greek βάσις auch via Latin
das Taxi - Taxen: borrowed word short for taxicab, portmanteau of taximeter and cabriolet - taximeter is from French taximètre, which is from German (!) Taxameter - Taxameter is coined from medieval Latin taxa, meaning tax - taxa comes from proto-Indo-European, let's not go there.
die Cafeteria - Cafeterien or Cafeterias: borrowing from the American Spanish, which in turn is a borrowing from French, which borrowed from Turkish, and then Arabic etc.
Let's just forget the last two
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