When you encounter the combination of definite article + adjective + noun, you use the weak declension. The weak declension of German adjectives with definite articles You will find example sentences for each declension in the table further down in this article. The three types of adjective declension are: Which one is the right one depends on the article that accompanies the noun (or doesn’t). To make things worse, there are three types of adapting German adjective endings to a noun and its different forms according to number and case.
Adjective in german grammar how to#
To ensure this, you need to determine the gender, number and case of this noun and then look at the article to find out how to correctly adapt the German adjective endings. Only when used as an attribute specifying a noun, the adjective needs to agree with this noun. There are three functions of adjectives in German: predicative, adverbial and attributive. = I have my account with the Zurich Cantonal Bank.Adjective declension is when we make an adjective agree with its noun in gender, number and case by changing its ending.
V) Adjectives based on city/town names don’t take endings - just capitalise the word and add er (with Zürich you also drop the i for some goddamn reason…)Įx: Ich habe mein Konto bei der Zürch er Kantonalbank. = an expensive car.Įx: dunkel > die dunkleste Ecke. Iv) Adjectives ending er & el drop the ‘e’ stem with adjective endings or when they go into superlative/comparative.Įx: teuer > ein teurer Wagen. Iii) halb and ganz don’t take endings before towns, countries, continents unless the place requires an article. Ii) lila, rosa, prima don’t take adjective endings. …I am aware this is very weird to pronounce, saying “hoher” always sounds so weird to me. I) When you are using the adjective ‘hoch’ you drop the h when you put an adjective ending or make it superlative/comparative. You can use google to find these endings, but please check #5 cause I will note some exceptions to adjective endings.
Adjective in german grammar plus#
German adjectives must agree in case, number, gender plus there are ‘mixed, weak, strong’ declensions so … yeah lol. = good > better > best / like > prefer > most like / much > more > most HOWEVER SOME ARE JUST SOOOOOOOoOOoO IRREGULAR, and you’ll note they’re irregular in English as well.Įx: gut > besser > beste / gern > lieber > liebste / viel > mehr > meiste. = big > bigger > biggest / wise > wiser > wisest / short > shorter > shortest. Okay so some adjectives are weird and change when you put them into their superlative/comparative forms… most only do something simple like adding an umlaut on first vowel:Įx: groß > gr öß er > gr öß te / klug > kl üg er > kl üg ste / kurz > k ürz er > k ürz ste. Hey it wouldn’t be German grammar without 1001 irregularities?
With predicate adjectives (that modify the subject of a sentence) you add “am” before the adjective and then add + sten onto the end for the superlative.Įx Ich bin am glücklich sten, wenn ich allein bin =I’m the happiest when I’m alone
= The cheapest cat.Įx: Wer ist die Schön ste im ganzen Land? = Who is the fairest of them all? In German you add + (e)ste to the end of the adjective… and capitalise it if it’s acting as a noun.Įx: Die billig ste Katze.
= I am smaller than you.Ī superlative is the greatest degree of something. If you want to compare something to something else, use “als”.Įx: Ich bin klein er als du. In German you never ever EVER put “mehr” (more) before, you always do it by adding +er. In German you must add + er to the end of the adjective to form a comparative.Įx: Das ist schön er = That is more beautiful.Įnglish is actually more complicated in this regard, depending on the adjective in English we either add an ending (nice r) or put “more” before it ( more beautiful). You’ll need to learn about…Ī comparative is used to compare something (to something else). > Oh those things are easy, don’t I just need to learn lots of words…? but it’s a word that describes a noun e.g. > First thing’s first… what’s an adjektiv? I’ll pretty much give you the run-down of adjectives - comparative & superlative forms also - plus some important things to remember about adjectives in German.
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