Story time

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the story
die Geschichte
another feminine word - think of mum telling a bed time story
    let's remember our feminine words so far:
  • die Frau
  • die Pizza
  • die Firma
  • die Geschichte
of the - masculine, neuter
des
of the man
des Mannes
Here we enter the troublesome realm of German declension :)
    German has four different cases.
    So far we have seen the Nominative the case of the subject,the actor in a sentence
    Now we are about to encounter the Genetive,the case of the owner of something
the story of the man
die Geschichte des Mannes
Genitive masculine and neuter
    one syllable words ending in a consonant + es
  1. des Mannes
  2. des Kindes
  3. des Hauses
  4. des Mondes (of the moon)
    longer words ending in consonants + s
  1. des Computers
    words ending in vowels take s
  1. des Kaffees
    finally there is a group of weak masculine nouns, mostly describing people or animals ending in n. Watch out for those, when they come up
the car of the man
das Auto des Mannes
the computer of the child
der Computer des Kindes
the pizza of the child
die Pizza des Kindes
the story of the car
die Geschichte des Autos
of the little man
des kleinen Mannes
adjectives take -en in genitive singular
of the big coffee
des grossen Kaffees
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