Adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns.

Präsentation zum Thema: "Adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns."—  Präsentation transkript:

1 Adjectives provide additional information about nouns and pronouns.

2 When adjectives provide information via a linking verb (no action!) such as.... bleiben, sein, werden, and gelten (+als) that is a PREDICATE ADJEKTIVE.... and it gets no endings!

3 zum Beispiel: Das Land Liechtenstein ist klein. Der Koffer wird jetzt schwer. Die neue Lehrerin gilt als sehr kompetent.

4 When adjectives precede the nouns they modify, they are called attributive adjectives. And in German... they get ENDINGS !

5 So, how does one know which endings these adjectives get? It depends :/... on whether the accompanying article provides you with the required grammatical information

6 Definite articles (der, die, das) and related words (dieser, diese, dieses) always provide this infomation Yeah!!! Wo hoo!!!!

7 Indefinite articles (ein/eine) and related words (mein/ihr/sein/kein....) sometimes do... and sometimes dont

8 Soo, if the information IS provided, German has provided us with some weak endings (e)

9 And when it doesnt... German has provided us with some strong (take charge of the situation) endings (en)

10 Weak endings Masc.Fem.Neut.Plural Nom. (subj/pred nom) ee e en Akkusativ (d.o., preps) en ee Dativ en Genitiv en Ach, du Schande! Das kriegen wir schon hin!

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