German 6 - Story time

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the storydie 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, neuterdes
of the mandes 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 mandie 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 Komputers
    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 mandas Auto des Mannes
the computer of the childder Komputer des Kindes
the pizza of the childdie Pizza des Kindes
the story of the cardie Geschichte des Autos
of the little mandes kleinen Mannes
adjectives take -en in genitive singular
of the big coffeedes grossen Kaffees
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