What´s the diference between Guten and Gute?

What´s the diference between Guten and Gute?

It has to do with gender: Guten Abend (evening = masculine) Gute Nacht (night = feminine). German has 3 genders, ie masculine, feminie and neuter. Don’t worry for now, you’ll more or less get used to them. You have noticed a difference and that is a good starting point.

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And how can we reconise feminin masculin or neutral

Only dictionary :frowning:
There are some tricks how to guess, but they are not 100% accurate.

Came in to say this. You will encounter an awful lot of this stuff in german. It can make your head spin if you worry about it too much.

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