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WORD GRAMMAR
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Verb
- Conjugation in indicative
- Person and number
- Tenses
- Voice
- Mood
- Verb categories
- Valency
- Semantic categories of verbs
- Finite / non-finite verb forms
- Noun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Article
- Pronoun
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Particle
- Interjection
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Verb
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SENTENCE GRAMMAR
- Clause types
- Complex clauses
- Constituents of a sentence
- Sentence structure
- Word order in a sentence
- Negation
First declension
The first declension of nouns includes nouns of all three genders. These are inflected as follows.
singular
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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nominative | der | Vater | die | Mutter | das | Kind |
genitive | des | Vaters | der | Mutter | des | Kinds |
dative | dem | Vater | der | Mutter | dem | Kind |
accusative | den | Vater | die | Mutter | das | Kind |
As one can see in the table above, only masculine and neuter nouns change their form and only in the genitive case, where the ending -s or -es is added.
In the plural, nouns of the first declension are inflected as follows.
plural
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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nominative | die | Väter | die | Mütter | die | Kinder |
genitive | der | Väter | der | Mütter | der | Kinder |
dative | den | Vätern | den | Müttern | den | Kindern |
accusative | die | Väter | die | Mütter | die | Kinder |
In the dative case plural, the ending -n is added to all genders, except for nouns that end in -n or -s.
plural
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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nominative | die | Chefs | die | Kameras | die | Autos |
genitive | der | Chefs | der | Kameras | der | Autos |
dative | den | Chefs | den | Kameras | den | Autos |
accusative | die | Chefs | die | Kameras | die | Autos |
plural
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masculine
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feminine
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neuter
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nominative | die | Staaten | die | Frauen | die | Augen |
genitive | der | Staaten | der | Frauen | der | Augen |
dative | den | Staaten | den | Frauen | den | Augen |
accusative | die | Staaten | die | Frauen | die | Augen |