Using a course to practice german gender recognition - how to make Memrise just ask one "language"?

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Hello!

I am at the moment creating a course to give advice on how to figure out the gender of german words. https://www.memrise.com/course/1445980/help-for-figuring-out-the-gender-of-german-words/

The thing I have to do for this is to stop the course from asking students the other direction, so there is no question like: "Maskulin -> ? "
,because there multiple answers would be possible and it would be impossible to figure out the right one.
I have searched already with search engines and in the faq, but wasn’t able to find a solution.
I was actually expecting to find one, because it should be a quite common usage?
Sorry if I have overlooked something!
Is there a possible workaround?

Greetings and thank you for your time!

Leo

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Hallo Leo,

Sorry, I do not have a solution for your problem.

I think this course is very difficult. For me it’s too abstract. Especially Level 2. And I don’t think this is common.
There are many exceptions in German. For examlpe:

-chen der Kuchen, der Rachen, der Drachen [kite]
-ment der Moment [time]
der Zement

-anz der Kranz, der Tanz, der Glanz
-or das Tor, das Moor, das Labor

Level 3
alcoholic drinks
maskulin

Alkohol? Deutschland?:wink::beer:
das Bier

May I ask you something?
How old are your students?

Happy weekend!

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Here is a workaround, a userscript to use in a browser.

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Hey redux, thank you for your answer!

I know that there are exceptions, but since there are more or less no rules regarding the gender in german, this is a little help to figure out some of them (the majority of those suffixes).

Das Bier for example is the only exception I know in terms of alcoholic drinks, I would have added some of those in the description and clarified that there are exceptions and this is just a help.

Edit1: Ah and my students are more or less from the whole range, starting from 13 till 60 or something like that.

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Hmm since every student would have to install this, it’s not a perfect solution for me. Some of them are not the best with technical things and I can’t always do it for them.

But thank you a lot for the input, I will definitely save this!

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As far as I know, Memrise doesn’t have an option to turn off testing in the opposite direction :\

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what for a strange statement… of course there are rules for gender in German… any (good) grammar book has a chapter on this

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I’m talking about you having to remember most of the articles on your own for every word as you learn it. Of course the gender in general has grammatical influence.

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That’s very sad, it would be an easy feature to implement I guess. And it would be very useful for making a wider range of courses possible.
Thank you for your answer!

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You’re welcome :slight_smile: It does seem like something that might be nice to have fixed.

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maybe I will write it in the wishlist :slight_smile: