Meine Mutter freut sich über deine Nachricht.

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Breakdown of Meine Mutter freut sich über deine Nachricht.

• die Mutter: the mother
• die Nachricht: the message
• über: about

Questions & Answers about Meine Mutter freut sich über deine Nachricht.

Why is it Meine Mutter and not Mein Mutter?

Because Mutter is grammatically feminine in German (die Mutter).

Possessive adjectives like mein- (my) have to agree with the gender, number, and case of the noun:

For feminine, nominative, singular (the subject of the sentence), you use meine:

• meine Mutter – my mother
• meine Schwester – my sister

Mein Mutter would be wrong, just like saying my mother as my mother-s in English.

Why is Mutter capitalized?

All nouns in German are capitalized, no matter where they appear in the sentence.

• die Mutter – the mother
• die Nachricht – the message
• das Haus – the house

So Mutter is capitalized because it is a noun, not because it’s particularly important or at the start of the sentence.

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