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Grammar review: Lesson 7Congratulations: You have reached the last content-page of this first German course: "German for Beginners".Here, we want to review quickly this course's last lesson (Lesson 7). The following topics were of importance: 
1) Indefinite articles The indefinite articles in German are:
Note that the accusative once again only affects the masculine/singular article and that there are no indefinite articles in the plural. 2) Plural The plural in German is very irregular for almost every single noun. Some plural nouns end in "s", some in "en", "el", "er" or "e". There are very few rules and guidelines for forming the plural in German. The following things might help you though: - The definite article of the plural is always " die ". Thus, the gender of a noun in the plural
does not matter. There is no indefinite article in the plural (same as in English).- Most plural nouns have an "e" in their ending (e.g. "die Augen", "die Hunde",
"die Hemden").- Feminine singular nouns that end in "e", usually form the plural by simply adding an "n "
(e.g. "die Banane" => "die Bananen").- Some nouns change their stem in the plural to an umlaut (e.g. "der Mann " => "die Männer").
3) Possessive pronouns in the plural
Note that once again, the only situation, where the accusative is different from the nominative is masculine/singular. Also, all plural possessive pronouns are the same as the feminine/singular possessive pronouns. 4) Adjective Endings Finally, we talked about adjective endings, in cases where the adjective stands between an article or possessive pronoun and a noun. Look at the following examples, which summarize all the rules connected with adjective endings. A) Definite articles (singular) => ending always "e" - Der grüne Pullover kostet zwanzig Euros. (The green sweater costs 20 Euros) - Die grüne Jacke kostet dreißig Euros. (The green jacket costs 30 Euros) - Das grüne Hemd kostet zehn Euros. (The green shirt costs 10 Euros) B) Indefinite articles or possessive pronouns (singular) => ending "er", "e" or "es" depending on gender - Ein grüner Pullover kostet zwanzig Euros. (A green sweater costs 20 Euros) - Meine grüne Jacke kostet dreißig Euros. (My green jacket costs 30 Euros) - Dein grünes Hemd kostet zehn Euros. (Your green shirt costs 10 Euros) C) Plural => ending behind article or possessive pronoun "en"; without article/possessive pronoun "e" - Die grünen Hemden (pl.) kosten zehn Euros. (The green shirts cost 10 Euros) - Unsere grünen Pullover (pl.). (Our green sweaters) - Seine grünen Jacken (pl.). (His green jackets) - Grüne Jacken (pl.) kosten dreißig Euros. (Green jackets cost 30 Euros) D) Accusative (only masculine/singular) => ending always "en" - Ich mag deinen grünen Pullover nicht. (I don't like your green sweater) - Du willst einen grünen Pullover kaufen? (You want to buy a green sweater?) - Wir gehen in den grünen Park. (We are going to the green park) E) Cases like "Es ist ...", "Du bist ..." etc ... => no adjective-endings - Das Buch ist grün. (The book is green; no adjective-ending) - Sein Auto ist grün. (His car is green; no adjective-ending) That's it! Now you can either repeat the vocabularies from the entire course in the vocabulary section of this epilogue or do some exercises, which will be another opportunity for you to repeat the entire grammar and vocabularies from this course.  previous page
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Epilogue I
Course 2
