Special features

EA10

Some adjectives follow different rules in their declension.

Invariable Adjectives are adjectives that their form remains unchanged.

	Examples
certain colors	sie hat ein lila Kleid gekauft
certain colors	Sand im Getriebe der orange-schwarzen Koalition

	Examples
adjectives that derive from geographical names and end in -er	die Berliner Mauer
	die Frankfurter Würste

Or a series of adjectives like "klasse, lauter, prima, premium, online, offline, super, topless, topsecret, trendy, tricky, uni, unplugged".

EA10A

Adjectives ending in –el

Adjectives in this group lose the unstressed e of the final syllable, when the adjective functions as an attribute to a noun.

	Examples
dunkel	dunkler Raum
flexibel	flexible Altersgrenze
irreparabel	irreparable Defekte

If the adjective stem ends in diphtong + er, the unstressed e of the final syllable is omitted, when the adjective functions as an attribute to a noun. This is also the case for foreign adjectives ending in an unstressed –er.

	Examples
teuer	teure Kleider
makaber	ein makabrer Witz

All other German adjectives that end in an unstressed -er or -en, retain the e of the stem.

	Examples
sicher	eine sichere Methode
eben	ein ebenes Gelände

EA10C

Adjectives ending in an unstressed –e

Some adjectives ending in an unstressed –e can be used without the –e.

	Examples
blöd - blöde	Paul ist blöd / blöde
nah - nahe	das Haus ist nah / nahe
mild - milde	das Wetter ist mild / milde

The –e of the ending is omitted when the adjective is inflected, following the rules of inflection of all adjectives that end in an unstressed –e.

	Examples
blöd - blöde	ein blöder Mensch
müde	ein müder Schüler

EA10D

The adjective hoch

When the adjective hoch is inflected, it loses the final stem consonant i.e. the c is omitted.

	Examples
hoch	ein hohes Gebäude

Special features

EA10

EA10A

EA10B

EA10C

EA10D