Word
Die Farbe des Stühlchens passt zum Tischchen.
Meaning
The color of the little chair matches the little table.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Die Farbe des Stühlchens passt zum Tischchen.
passen
to fit
die Farbe
the color
zum
to the (zu + dem)
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
Questions & Answers about Die Farbe des Stühlchens passt zum Tischchen.
Why do the masculine nouns Stuhl and Tisch take neuter articles here (des and dem in zum)?
Any noun that ends in the diminutive suffixes -chen or -lein automatically becomes neuter (das). It doesn't matter what the original gender was! That's why we treat both Stühlchen and Tischchen as neuter nouns in this sentence.
Why does Stühlchen have an umlaut when Stuhl doesn't, but Tischchen stays the same?
When you add -chen or -lein to create a diminutive, the vowels a, o, and u in the base word usually get an umlaut (ä, ö, ü). So, Stuhl becomes Stühlchen. The vowel i in Tisch cannot take an umlaut, so the word just becomes Tischchen.
Why is there an extra -s at the end of Stühlchens?
That indicates the genitive case, which shows possession. It translates to "of the little chair." In the genitive case, masculine and neuter nouns add an -s or -es at the end. Since all -chen words are neuter, they will always take that -s in the genitive (des Stühlchens).