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Sure it makes no sense to you, you grew up with English. A fluent German speaker would likely say that a lack of a categorized article system doesn't make any sense. As the comment above reads, the categorization of nouns into M and F (German also has N) isn't literally saying "this noun is male" or whatever, it's just saying "hey we're gonna only use this kind of article with this noun" and it can make for some wonderful poetry. Heck, even just regular speech sounds nice in languages with gendered articles. So keep an open mind :)