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diesen roten |
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Mein neues Haus ist schön.
Ein neues Haus - a new house
Mein neues Haus - my new house
It’s the same table, we only add - m to ein, eine
The same rule applies to all possessive pronouns : sein, ihr, unser, euer, ihr.
The black cat brings misfortune.
She drinks hot tea.
I love my good man.
We want this nice house.
Definite articles: Die schwarze Katze bringt Unglück.
Indefinite articles: Sie trinkt einen heißen Tee.
Possessive pronouns: Ich liebe meinen guten Mann
Demonstrative pronouns: Wir wollen dieses schöne Haus.
✔️ For demonstrative pronouns we apply the same endings we use for definite articles. Don’t forget the endings of demonstratives:
MASCULINE - er, en, -em
NEUTER - es, em
FEMININE -e, er
✔️For possessive pronouns we apply the same endings we use for indefinite articles.
How does it work? Let’s break down the next sentence:
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Let’s break down the next examples:
Das rote Auto ist da.
In Nominative case, the adjective “rot” gets -e, definite article “das”
The red car is there.
Ich habe ein rotes Auto.
In the accusative case, the adjective “rot” gets -es, indefinite article “ein”
I have a red car.
Ich gebe dem armen Mann Geld.
In the dative case, the adjective “arm” gets -en, definite article “der”
I give money to the poor man .
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Take your chance and try to guess what these sentences mean!
Mrs. Purrplexed wants to play!
✔️ Practical examples. After you break-down these sentences and understand better how it works, test your knowledge and try to translate them.
Mr. Puddle: Exactly! The datives have also -en. See? Now you almost know all the endings!
Mr. Puddle: Don’t forget the mnemonics! These are essential tools to learn the adjective endings: always use -e ending for the nominative and the accusative cases, the only exception is the masculine, which generally gets -en at accusative.
Mr. Kitty Hawk: This is so damn stresfull. Meow!
Mr. Kitty Hawk: All the plurals have -en endings, right?
Mr. Kitty Hawk: So many endings…. How am I supposed to remember all of these? Meowww
Here there are some mnemonics. We know they look complicated, but don't get overwhelmed!
Don't forget that the best mnemonic remains the practice.
All definite articles + adjectives get -e ending at NOMINATIVE
Der rote, gute, kleine, schöne Stuhl
Das rote, gute, kleine, schöne Auto
Die rote, gute, kleine, schöne Blume
The red, good, small, beautiful chair
The red, good, small, beautiful car
The red, good, small, beautiful flower
The same applies to ACCUSATIVE, only the masculine gets -en
Den roten, guten, kleinen, schönen Stuhl
Das rote, gute, kleine, schöne Auto
Die rote, gute, kleine, schöne Blume
All plurals get -en ending
Die/den starken, interessanten, seltsamen Männer (Männern - at Dative)
Keine/euere/diese starken, interessanten, seltsamen Frauen
The strong, interesting, strange men
None / your / these strong, interesting, strange women
All datives get - en ending
Dem starken, interessanten, seltsamen Männern
Der starken, interessanten, seltsamen Frauen
Einem starken, interessanten, seltsamen Mann
Einer starken, interessanten, seltsamen Frau
Meinem/diesem starken, interessanten, seltsamen Mensch
✔️In previous lessons we learned a lot about the German cases:
The articles of nouns, the personal, demonstrative and personal pronouns are declined within all cases differently and have different forms
✔️The function of the subject ( in Nominative), the direct object (in Accusative) and the indirect object (in Dative).
The adjective endings are connected to everything we previously learned so far, because the endings are different depending on the case, the article and the pronouns.
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