Learning languages is about examples, not rules. And there are some pretty odd rules out there. To give you an idea about weird rules in languages, let me show you two French sentences: 1. J'ai vu la voiture. (I have seen the car) 2. Je l'ai vue . (I have seen it, i.e. the car) Now, even if you don't know French you will notice that in the first sentence the word 'vu' (seen) is spelled without the final 'e' but in the second sentence it has a final 'e'. Let me explain why that is. First of all, you need to know that in many languages every noun has a gender (masculine, feminine and, in some cases, neuter). Often these genders defy logic. In German " Mädche n" (girl) is not feminine, but neuter. The word for 'problem' is masculine in French ( le problème ), feminine in Russian ( проблема ) and neuter in German ( das Problem ). In French car ( voiture ) is feminine. I could go into all sorts of additional expl...