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    2 months ago

    All diminutive nouns (with postfix “-chen”, “-lein”) use the neutral gender.

    Der Hund → das Hündchen
    Die Tür → das Türchen

    And while Mädchen is not anymore used like a diminutive form, it got originally derived from “die Magd”.