German nouns ending in -ette
-ette is feminine: die Toilette, die Tablette.
Say the article and the noun together. The ending is a hint, not a word.
On the 35 common nouns with this ending in the frequency list behind these rules, 94.3% take die. We label that “almost always”. The count is from german-nouns (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0). It is not an exam pass rate.
Exceptions in this rule
- das Roulette
Learn the exceptions as pairs. The ending is still worth using for every other noun.
Examples the course uses
- die Toilette
- die Tablette
- die Zigarette