Second declension

DA21

The second declension of nouns includes only masculine nouns. In the singular number, they are inflected as follows.

	singular
nominative	der	Mensch	Student	Kunde
genitive	des	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden
dative	dem	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden
accusative	den	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden

As one can see in the table above, nouns of the second declension change their form in singular genitive, dative and accusative. The ending for all three cases is -en .

In the plural number, nouns of the second declension are inflected as follows.

	plural
nominative	die	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden
genitive	der	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden
dative	den	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden
accusative	die	Menschen	Studenten	Kunden

In the plural the ending for all cases is again -en.

The following noun categories are inflected according to the second declension:

	Examples
German nouns ending in -e	der Experte, der Affe, der Kollege (Exception: der Käse, der See)
foreign nouns ending in -ist	der Polizist, der Journalist
foreign nouns ending in -ent	der Student, der Präsident
foreign nouns ending in -ant	der Demonstrant, der Lieferant
foreign nouns ending in -and	der Doktorand
nouns without specific characteristics	der Mensch, der Rebell, der Bär, der Held