![]() If you are learning German, make sure to avoid these common mistakes: For instance, the plural of der Hund (‘dog’) is die Hunde (‘dogs’). Some common plural endings you will recognize in German are -e, -er, -en, -n, and -s. The German language uses multiple ways to form plurals.For example, although the German equivalent for ‘beautiful’ is schön, to say ‘a beautiful woman lives next door’, you have to add an extra ‘e’ to schön to mark the feminine noun in the nominative case: eine schöne Frau wohnt nebenan. So genders and cases determine not only definite articles but also the ending of any preceding adjective. German adjective endings must agree with a noun’s gender and case.Thus, you will say der Mann (‘the man’ – masculine), die Frau (‘the woman’ – feminine), and das Kind (‘the child’ – neuter). While in English we use ‘the’ to articulate all nouns, German uses 'der' to articulate masculine nouns, 'die' for feminine nouns, and 'das' for neuter nouns. Unlike English, the German language has three genders: feminine, masculine and neuter. ![]() For instance, in Ich liebe den Sommer (‘I love summer’), the capitalized noun is ‘summer’. If you have ever studied a German text before, you may have noticed capitalized letters in the middle of the sentence.
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