Thursday class 17.03.2010 adjectives Sotiri

Adjective endings.


Quick Rules:

 1. Adjectives that are NOT in front of a noun (predicate adjectives) take NO endings;

 2. Endings depend on whether the noun is preceded by a “der” word (der, die, das, dieser, jeder etc.) or an “ein” word (ein, mein, unser, kein etc.);

 3. Adjectives that are unpreceded by a “der” or “ein” word take the same ending that the
definite ARTICLE (der, die, das etc.) WOULD take if there were one (not shown here). 


                                                Preceded Adjective Endings

     Nominative      Accusative          Dative       Genitive
Masculine     der       - e
 ein       - er      den     - en
einen    - en       dem      - en
einem     - en          des     - en
eines    - en
Neuter                das       - e
 ein       - es       das       - e
  ein       - es          der       - en
 einer      - en       der    - en
 einer   - en
Feminine                die       - e
eine       - e       die       - e
 eine       - e         dem      - en
einem     - en      des     - en
eines    - en
 Plural       die      - en
keine    - en      die      - en
keine    - en       den      - en
keinen    - en      der     - en
keiner  - en



Complete the following statements:

1.    All preceded adjectives in the plural end in ……………………..
2.    All preceded adjectives in the dative end in …………………….
3.    All preceded adjectives in the genitive end in ………………………
4.    All singular feminine forms in the nominative and accusative (preceded and unpreceded) end in ……………………
5.    If the article is “das”, the adjective ending is always ……………………
6.    If the article ends in –en, the adjective always ends in …………………….