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Why is it Die Nase? Are all body parts feminine in German?
No, body parts in German don't follow a single gender rule. You have masculine (der Kopf, der Arm), feminine (die Nase, die Hand), and neuter (das Auge, das Bein). You just have to memorize the gender with each new body part!
Why doesn't the adjective rot have an ending like rote here?
In German, adjectives only get endings (like -e, -er, -en) when they come directly before the noun they describe, like in die rote Nase (the red nose). Because rot comes after the verb ist here, it stays in its basic, unchanged form.
If I want to change this to say 'My nose is red', how does the feminine gender of Nase affect the word 'my'?
You would say Meine Nase ist rot. Because Nase is a feminine noun, you need to add the feminine ending -e to the word mein, making it meine.