Questions & Answers about Die hohen Türme sind wunderschön.
Why does the adjective hohen end in -en here?
This sentence has a plural noun, die Türme (the towers), in the nominative case (the subject of the sentence). After a plural definite article (die), adjectives always take the ending -en. Therefore, we say die hohen Türme.
The dictionary says "high" is hoch. Why is it spelled hohen instead of hochen?
hoch is a special exception! Whenever hoch gets any adjective ending, it drops the c and changes its stem to hoh-. When we add our -en ending, it becomes hohen.
Why doesn't wunderschön get an adjective ending like hohen does?
In German, adjectives only get endings when they come right before a noun to describe it, like die hohen Türme. When an adjective comes after a verb (like sind wunderschön), it is called a predicate adjective and it stays in its basic dictionary form.
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