Breakdown of Diese Ausnahme ist noch gültig.
sein
to be
dieser
this / that (fem.: diese, neut.: dieses)
noch
still / yet
die Ausnahme
the exception
gültig
valid
Questions & Answers about Diese Ausnahme ist noch gültig.
The current lesson is about the preposition außer (except). How does the word Ausnahme (exception) fit into this?
While außer is the preposition used to say "except" or "besides," die Ausnahme is the noun for the exception itself. It comes from the separable verb ausnehmen (to exclude). A common related phrase you will hear is mit Ausnahme von (with the exception of), which also requires the dative case just like außer!
Is the adjective gültig (valid) related to a verb?
Yes! It comes from the strong verb gelten (to be valid / to count). By changing the root vowel to an umlaut and adding the common adjective suffix -ig, it becomes the adjective gültig.
Why is it Diese Ausnahme and not Dieses or Dieser?
Ausnahme is a feminine noun, which is a safe guess for many German nouns ending in -e. Because it is the subject of the sentence in the nominative case, the demonstrative pronoun "this" must take the feminine nominative ending -e, making it Diese.
How exactly is noch being used here?
Here, noch translates to "still," showing that the exception's validity has continued from the past into the present. If you wanted to say the exception is "not yet valid," you would combine it with nicht to say ist noch nicht gültig.
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