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Gender: DAS Kind, DER Hund.

@Ironfleet11

because the thing being seen is in the accusative  the accusative for a der Word is einen; the accusative for a das word is ein 

Sorry but I find this inappropriate. If there is some strange language used on official documents or a law then by all means post it here and ask. But to expect explainations about absolute basic grammar is nonsensical. Buy a beginner German grammer book!

@TominStuttgart I disagree.

This forum exists to exchange ideas, experiences and information relevant to foreigners in Germany. Language is a part of that, of course.

I think it is o.k. to ask (and answer) such questions. If you don't like them, please just ignore!

@beppi Thanks

On sentence 1: Kind is nominativ and Hund is accusativ

On sentence 2: Hund is nominativ, Kind is accusativ

"Kind" belongs to neutral articles, that means

• Nominativ: das Kind, ein Kind
• Accusativ: das Kind, ein Kind
• Dativ: dem Kind, einem Kind

"Hund" belongs to masculin articles, that means

        . Nominativ: der Hund, ein Hund

        . Accusativ:   den Hund, einen Hund

        . Dativ: dem Hund, einem Hund

The kid and dog are doing the same thing (seeing). But the kid=Kind is neutral, and the dog=Hund is masculin in German.

This is the logic of the German langage:

-you have to speak and write it correct

-A dog is more masculin than a kid in accusativ case, but both (kid and dog) are in total indifference on dativ case...

-we have to write both subsantives in big letters

This confused me a lot at the start too.

What finally made it click for me was thinking less about the sentence meaning and more about the role of the noun.

The one being seen is always in the accusative:

das Kind sieht einen Hund → masculine → einen

der Hund sieht ein Kind → neutral → stays ein

Only masculine nouns really change in this case, which is why it feels inconsistent at first.

What helped me was drilling this step by step instead of trying to translate full sentences all the time.

It feels random at first, but it does start to make sense after a bit.

@Ironfleet11

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@Ironfleet11
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This is a 2-year-old post, and the OP has not returned to the site in all that time, so you may not get a response.

But that's a good question all the same.