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Adjectives
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Adjectives are very useful in making sentences more interesting or for providing
clarity. They modify nouns and pronouns and can be predicative or attributive:
Predicative:
Attributive:
He is lucky.
John is a lucky guy.
Adjectives work the same way in German, with the exception of requiring an
ending when used attributively:
◆ Predicative:
◆ Attributive:
subject 1 linking verb 1 adjective
Die Frau 1 ist 1 krank.
The woman is sick.
subject 1 verb 1 declined adjective 1 object
Die Frau 1 hilft 1 dem kranken 1 Kind.
The woman helps the sick child.
The pattern illustrated above shows a declined adjective in the dative case. However,
declined adjectives occur in all cases (nominative, accusative, dative, and
genitive).
Predicative: Sie ist klug. She is smart.
Attributive: Tina ist eine kluge Frau. Tina is a smart woman.
When an adjective ending is required, the nominative singular of all three
genders and the accusative singular of the feminine and neuter indicate gender
differently, depending upon whether the determiner used is a der-word or an einword:
Der-worDS
Ein-words
der, die, das the ein, eine a, an, one
dieser this mein my
jener that dein your
jeder each sein his
mancher many a ihr her, their
solcher such unser our
welcher which, what euer your
derjenige the one Ihr your
derselbe the same kein not any
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