Rule for masculine · der
Nouns ending in -ist
-ist → der · 0.2% (exception: die Frist)
The rule, in plain language
Nouns that name a profession or a person with a certain orientation and end in -ist are almost always masculine: der Polizist, der Journalist, der Geist (here meaning spirit/ghost). It's a rare pattern in our set - only 4 words - but a useful one, precisely for these job-related words. The only exception we found is die Frist (deadline), which has the same ending but stays feminine - remember it separately.
In the A1-B1 vocabulary of the Genau course, this rule covers 4 words
(0.2%) and has 1 exceptions - all listed below.
Representative examples
The exceptions
These contradict the rule - learn them as-is:
All course words that follow this rule
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