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Because back in the day, when the question of who has to carry what mark came up in one of the design meetings for the German language, the nouns were quite unwilling to participate. Seriously though, the German marking system is REALLY messed up. Hey… STOP… come back! You can’t run away, you hear me? Learning Spanish will not solve your problems with German. Now, we could ask “Okay, cool, so… what marker are the adjectives carrying?”Īnd it is similarly straight-forward in Italian. Alongside with nouns, articles and pronouns they have to carry around certain marks for gender, case and number. And that’s exactly what the adjective endings are doing. In English an -smarks plural for instance. A very common way of marking things like gender or number are endings. Many languages belong to the WTM-club and in most them the grammar is “marked”. German is not the only language to do that. Look! Masculine singular accusative!”, it says. Like… you’re just sitting there trying to read a book and German keeps waving its grammar in your face. But German doesn’t only have those forms. That’s why linguists call it a WTM-language by the way. It has three way too many genders, four way too many cases and 2715 WAAAAAY to many ways to build the plural. (By the time they realize it’s the Rocky Mountain national park, it’s too late… ) guahahhahahahaha… oh… did I just do the evil laughter aloud? Damn… anyway… without any further ado, here we go…. We’re basically done already, we just need to wrap up the whole thing. We’ll breeze through a few rules and a few concepts and shabams… we’re done. What did the guy say? … uhm… pretend that it’s easy… yeah, that’s it… quick… must act or I’ll lose them)Īnd that’s why today i t’ll be su rprisingly e asy. (wait a second… that’s not how they explained it at this “Explain things seminar”. You will be super exhausted and so frustrated that y ou will never want to spe ak Germ an a ga. Have you heard of the 80/20 rule? It’s like… you can drink 80% of an XXL Latte with hazelnut with joy and little effort but you need to really want to finish it to drink the remaining… uhm… the remaining percent. “German grammar ist kein ponyhof” as a common proverb says. Now, so far it was all easy peasy but this is gonna end today. Sorry… haha… a bit shaky with the math right there. Today, we’ll take care of the extra 15 %. If you just do that, you should get about 70 % correct. In part 2 (find it here) we learned to add an extra -n to that whenever the article looks weird. Part 1 (find it here), the most important one, was about adding an -e to the adjective as soon as it precedes a noun, no matter what.
GERMAN ADJECTIVE ENDINGS SERIES
And welcome to the last part of the mini series on