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German grammar
Nouns
Verbs
Articles
Adjectives
Pronouns
Adverbial phrases
Conjugation
Sentence structure
Declension
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The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, German nouns possess a grammatical gender; the three genders are masculine, feminine, and neuter. Words for objects without obvious masculine or feminine characteristics like 'bridge' or 'rock' can be masculine or feminine. German nouns are declined (change form) depending on their grammatical case (their function in a sentence) and whether they are singular or plural. German has four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.
German is unusual among languages using the Latin alphabet in that all nouns are capitalized (for example, "the book" is always written as "das Buch"). Other High German languages, such as Luxembourgish, also capitalize both proper and common nouns. Only a handful of other languages capitalize their nouns, mainly regional languages with orthographic conventions inspired by German, such as Low German and Saterland Frisian. Under the influence of German, the Scandinavian languages formerly capitalized their nouns; Danish retained the habit until 1948.
Noun compounds are written together with no spacing (for example, the German word for "spy satellite" is "Spionagesatellit"). Plurals are normally formed by adding -e, -en, -er (or nothing) to the noun, and sometimes a vowel is also changed (the so-called umlaut). Moreover, recent loanwords from French and English often keep the -s plural ending.
The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, Germannouns possess a grammatical...
das Lied, das Maß, das Schloss, das Verbot. Since no feminine nouns end in en. Nouns with -er arising from verbs are masculine (anyhow, most of them...
The syntactic occurrence of nouns differs among languages. In English, prototypical nouns are common nouns or proper nouns that can occur with determiners...
qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages with grammatical gender, most or all nouns inherently carry one value of the grammatical...
Students of German are often advised to learn Germannouns with their accompanying definite article, as the definite article of a Germannoun corresponds...
Everglades, the Azores, the Pleiades). Proper nouns can also occur in secondary applications, for example modifying nouns (the Mozart experience; his Azores adventure)...
agreement with collective count nouns differently. For example, users of British English generally accept that collective nouns take either singular or plural...
employed as the subject or object of a clause, acting as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases, but are also used in relative clauses to relate the main clause...
Ever since the first ethnically German families settled in the United States in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1608, the German language, dialects, and different...
e-books) in the world being published in German. German is an inflected language, with four cases for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives (nominative, accusative...
German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways articles, adjectives and sometimes nouns can change their form to reflect their...
noun suffix -îe is seen initially in borrowings from French such as massenîe ("retinue, household") and then starts to be combined with Germannouns to...
with their corresponding nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subjects in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...
Non-count nouns are distinguished from count nouns. Given that different languages have different grammatical features, the actual test for which nouns are...
nouns (names) and common nouns. Common nouns are in turn divided into concrete and abstract nouns, and grammatically into count nouns and mass nouns....
step noun adjuncts, such as college in the noun phrase a college student nouns in certain oblique cases, in languages which have them, such as German des...
agreed with their antecedent nouns in case, number, and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subject in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions...
the Germannouns Heterosexual and Homosexual. He translated works by Hungarian poets and writers Sándor Petőfi, János Arany and Mór Jókai into German. Among...
"Heilung" is a Germannoun meaning "healing" in English. Heilung was founded in 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark by vocalist Kai Uwe Faust (a German tattoo artist...
Germanic nouns. Here too, the weak noun was the consonantal declension, such as the Germannouns that form their genitive in -n. Examples: standard noun: der...
three main categories of English nouns are common nouns, proper nouns, and pronouns. A defining feature of English nouns is their ability to inflect for...
vehicle or infantry fighting vehicle of the German-Wehrmacht until 1945. The wording was derived from the Germannouns Kampfwagen (fighting vehicle) and Kanone...
In linguistics, a noun class is a particular category of nouns. A noun may belong to a given class because of the characteristic features of its referent...
Mark (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈmaʁk] ; English: German mark), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" ([ˈdeːˌmaʁk] ), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948...
term declension is rarely used. Most nouns in English have distinct singular and plural forms. Nouns and most noun phrases can form a possessive construction...
Look up See or see in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. See or SEE may refer to: Visual perception Music: See (album), studio album by rock band The Rascals...
respective masculine and feminine genders. With nouns ending in t or k, only -je is added; a few nouns ending in kj, an additional s is inserted: de Staut...
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