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Note
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
Usages of die Geschichte
die Geschichte des Mannes
the story of the man
Genitive masculine and neuter
- one syllable words ending in a consonant + es
- des Mannes
- des Kindes
- des Hauses
- des Mondes (of the moon)
- longer words ending in consonants + s
- des Computers
- words ending in vowels take s
- 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
die Geschichte des Autos
the story of the car
der Geschichtenerzähler
the storyteller
Ich erzähle eine Geschichte.
I tell a story.
am Anfang der Geschichte
at the beginning of the story
am + Dative
am Anfang
der Geschichte - of the story - Genitive
Am Anfang der Geschichte ist der kleine Mann unglücklich.
At the beginning of the story, the little man is unhappy.
Watch out for the word order! Whenever we start the sentence with a time expression the verb moves before the subject.
Er (1) ist (2) unglücklich.
Am Anfang ist (2) er (1) unglücklich.
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