Adjectives which are prefixed to the noun
| There is a considerable number of compound nouns in German where the adjective is not inl ected before the noun but actually joined to it as the compound is regarded as a concept. You can do nothing more than note them as you come across them, e.g. Rotwein not roter Wein (red wine), Weißbrot not weißes Brot (white bread). Likewise die Fremdsprache (foreign language), die Privatschule (private school), der Blauwal (blue whale), der Neubau (new building), der Nahverkehr (local trafi c), das Sauerkraut. Sometimes the i rst part of such compound nouns is a noun in German but an adjective in English, e.g. der Hauptbahnhof (central/main station), der Politikwissenschaftler (political scientist), mein Lieblingsbuch (my favourite book) |
