Breakdown of Manche Leute essen die Münchner Brezel mit Butter.
die Leute
the people
essen
to eat
mit
with
manche
some
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
die Butter
the butter
Münchner
of Munich
die Brezel
the pretzel
Questions & Answers about Manche Leute essen die Münchner Brezel mit Butter.
Why does Münchner not have a feminine accusative ending like Münchnere to match die Brezel?
Adjectives derived from city or town names that end in -er are indeclinable. This means they are frozen and their ending never changes, regardless of the gender, case, or number of the noun they describe. Therefore, it stays Münchner.
German adjectives are usually written in lowercase. Why is Münchner capitalized here?
Geographic adjectives ending in -er are a special exception to the lowercase rule. Because they are derived directly from proper names of places (like the city of München), they are treated almost like proper nouns themselves and are always capitalized.
How do you know which ending to put on manche in this sentence?
Manch- (some) is an adjective that behaves like a "der-word" (taking the same strong endings as definite articles like der, die, das). Because it modifies Leute, which is a plural noun in the nominative case (they are the subject doing the eating), it takes the plural nominative ending -e, giving us manche.
Why is there no article after mit in the phrase mit Butter?
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