GERMAN ADJECTIVE ENDINGS HOW TO

Eine schön e Frau geht mit einer ander en schön en Frau in eine cool e Bar.Īnd again all correct.A pretty woman goes with another pretty woman to a cool bar.Įine is normal so we’ll put e there but eineris weird so we’ll add en.Eine schön_ Frau geht mit einer ander_ schön_ Frau in eine cool_ Bar.Die schön e Kellnerin gibt dem groß enMann den groß en Kaffee.ģ out of 3… that smells like an A+ in the exam.The pretty waitress gives the tall guy a large coffee.ĭie for waitress is fine, but dem and den are weird.Die schön_ Kellnerin gibt dem groß_ Mann den groß_ Kaffee.Der groß e Mann telefoniert mit der schön en Frau.With Mann it is fine because Mann is masculine but with Frau it is weird because Frau is feminine. The tall guy talks to the pretty woman walking down the street.Der groß_ Mann spricht mit derschön_ Frau, die die Strasse langläuft.So… for all those, the adjective ending will be -en. Why use it for plural too? That’s just random and weird. And you know what else is weird: die for plural. And then OMG: der for feminine things like in dative case… LOL I say, LOL… that is just freaking WEIRD. This is what even absolute beginners know about German. So here is what I mean: there is der, die, das and ein, eine, ein. Oh… uh… and uh… and uhm… when exactly is an article weird? I mean… many of you probably find ALL the German articles weird…. So… as you can see, our approach to German adjective endings is based on statistics and science and we produce concrete, scientific results … so when is -en the correct ending? I bet you, you can’t find one that proves me wrong :). Here, with interessante and interessanten combined, it is even more obvious. Let’s try another one… how about a longer one like interessant.

This is a Google N-Gram for the word gut. So -er, – es and -em each only make up like 7%. Actually, it’s a giant step… You see -e and -en together account for about 80% of the adjective endings. The second reason is a rhythmical one but I suggest you just check out part 1 if you haven’t yet.Īll right, now… today we’ll learn when -en is the correct ending. So you get 40% correct for doing nothing but adding an -e. First of, e is always part of the correct ending and it is correct all by itself about 40% of the time. Just add an -e! There are 2 reasons to do this. Just a real quick recap about last time… we learned to ALWAYS add an -e without worrying about gender or case or article.

GERMAN ADJECTIVE ENDINGS HOW TO

And today, it’s time for the second part in our series on how to use (or guess) German adjective endings: And welcome to a new episode in our epic German is Easy – Learn German Online Course.