Improve your German grammar knowledge; learn about German nouns to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. |
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| Compound noun As mentioned under 2.4, German does not hyphenate compound www.zdeutsch.com Neuter adjectival noun There is another small category of adjectival nouns that www.zdeutsch.com Adjectival noun An adjectival noun is a noun formed from an adjective. www.zdeutsch.com Diminutization of noun There are two ways of forming the diminutivein German, by adding www.zdeutsch.com |
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GROUP 5: add -s Foreign words ending in -a, -i, -o and -u, e.g. GROUP 4: add -n or -e Most feminine nouns (i.e. all those not listed in Group 2) GROUP 3: add ¨er or -er 1 A few masculine nouns (listed here) 2 Some neuter nouns |
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| Pluralization of noun Deciding on how to pluralize a German noun is a bothersome www.zdeutsch.com Rules for neuter gende All diminutives ending in -chen and -lein regardless of the gender www.zdeutsch.com Rules for feminine gender Nouns in the following categories are feminine: www.zdeutsch.com Rules for masculine gender All professions and nationalities that refer to male beings, e.g. www.zdeutsch.com |
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GROUP 2: add ¨e or -e Masculine nouns of one syllable as well as a few bisyllabic nouns GROUP 1: No change in the plural Masculine and neuter nouns ending in -el, -en and -er, e.g. Gender of noun All German nouns belong to one of three genders: masculine, |
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