Breakdown of Viele kleine Verlage besuchen die Buchmesse.
klein
small
viel
much / a lot
besuchen
to visit
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
Questions & Answers about Viele kleine Verlage besuchen die Buchmesse.
Why is it kleine and not kleinen? Don't plural adjectives usually end in -en?
They do when they come after a definite article (like die). However, words like viele, einige, and mehrere don't act like articles; they act like normal adjectives. Because there is no article to show the case, both viele and kleine take the strong plural ending for the nominative case, which is -e.
How would the adjective change if we used alle instead of viele?
You would say Alle kleinen Verlage. This is the big difference in your current lesson: unlike viele, the words alle (all) and beide (both) act just like definite articles. After an article, the following adjective takes the weak plural ending, which is always -en.
What is the singular form of Verlage?
The singular is der Verlag (the publisher or publishing house). To make it plural, you simply add an -e to get die Verlage.
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