Frisches Brot hält nicht lange.

the bread

Breakdown of Frisches Brot hält nicht lange.

• lang: long
• nicht: not
• frisch: fresh

Questions & Answers about Frisches Brot hält nicht lange.

Why is it frisches Brot and not frisch Brot?

Because Brot is a neuter noun (das Brot), and the adjective frisch has to take an ending.

Here there is no article before the noun, so the adjective has to show the grammatical information by itself. In the nominative singular neuter, that ending is -es:

• frisches Brot = fresh bread

This is called adjective inflection.

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Why is there no article before frisches Brot?

German often leaves out the article when speaking generally about something.

So Frisches Brot hält nicht lange means something like:

• Fresh bread doesn’t keep long
• Fresh bread doesn’t last long

It is a general statement about fresh bread in general, not about one specific loaf.

If you were talking about a specific bread, you might say:

• Das frische Brot hält nicht lange.
  = The fresh bread doesn’t last long.

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Why is Brot capitalized?