 Swiss German differs from Standard German in, for example, the gender of nouns (das E-Mail", das Tram" and "das SMS" instead of "die") or in the preposition that verbs require ("jemanden anfragen" instead of "bei jemandem anfragen").In general, more often than in Germany or Austria, the Swiss use expressly feminine nouns ("Bundesrätin Ruth Metzler", "Frieda U. wurde zur Primarschullehrerin gewählt") rather than the generic masculine ("Bundesrat", "Primarschullehrer" etc.