German grammar with the natural gender of what is described. However, since the diminutive forms ending in "-chen" or "-lein" are grammatically neuter, there exist several notable counterexamples such as "das Mädchen" ("girl") and "das Fräulein" ("miss"). Thus these are not illogical, whereas "das Weib" (old, regional or anthropological: woman; a cognate of the English "wife") is really an exception. Furthermore, in German, the gender of nouns without natural gender is not predictable. For example, the three common pieces of cutlery all have different genders: "das Messer" ("knife") is neuter, "die Gabel" ("fork") is feminine, and "der Löffel" ("spoon") is masculine. Students
Martin Gabel "Lady in Cement" (1968), then co-starred again with Sinatra in "Contract on Cherry Street" and "The First Deadly Sin". Gabel won the 1961 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor for the comedy "Big Fish, Little Fish"; he was also noted for his performances in the Broadway productions of "Baker Street", in which he played Professor Moriarty; "The Rivalry", in which he played Stephen A. Douglas. Gabel played businessman Mr. Strutt in Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" (1964), and the psychiatrist in the Billy Wilder version of "The Front Page" (1974) with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. He was a