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Surfer Posted 11 years ago
Grammar
declining nouns
Hello, everyone,
Would you pleas take a look at the following:
"Nouns (also called substantives, noun substantives, or concrete nouns) are declinable words that describe things, beings, and abstract concepts (e. g. der Löffel, die Frau, das Wetter – the spoon, the woman, the weather). Nouns are generally used with their article, and they have to be declined."
Source:https://deutsch.lingolia.com/en/grammar/nouns-and-articles
What's the declining there? What does it mean?
Thank you.
Would you pleas take a look at the following:
"Nouns (also called substantives, noun substantives, or concrete nouns) are declinable words that describe things, beings, and abstract concepts (e. g. der Löffel, die Frau, das Wetter – the spoon, the woman, the weather). Nouns are generally used with their article, and they have to be declined."
Source:https://deutsch.lingolia.com/en/grammar/nouns-and-articles
What's the declining there? What does it mean?
Thank you.
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t o inflect (a noun, pronoun, or adjective), as Latin puella, declined puella, puellae, puellae, puellam, puella in the five cases of the singular. (RHUD) The verb refers to the various forms a noun, pronoun or adjective can have. In German it's often the article that changes.
- t o inflect (a noun, pronoun, or adjective), as Latin puella, declined puella, puellae, puellae, puellam, puella in the five cases of the singular.
- (RHUD) The verb refers to the various forms a noun, pronoun or adjective can have.
- In German it's often the article that changes.
- CB
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to inflect (a noun, pronoun, or adjective), as Latin puella, declined puella, puellae, puellae, puellam, puella in the five cases of the singular.
(RHUD)
The verb refers to the various forms a noun, pronoun or adjective can have. In German it's often the article that changes.
CB
(RHUD)
The verb refers to the various forms a noun, pronoun or adjective can have. In German it's often the article that changes.
CB
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In English, the noun doesn't change when it's the subject, the direct object, the indirect object, etc. (We have different forms for pronouns, but not regular nouns.)
Nouns change in Latin. You decline the noun based on how it's used.
In German, the noun stays the same but the article changes. (If I recall correctly.) The word "the" can take many forms based on whether the noun
Nouns change in Latin. You decline the noun based on how it's used.
In German, the noun stays the same but the article changes. (If I recall correctly.) The word "the" can take many forms based on whether the noun
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English used to decline nouns, but that was largely lost in Middle English.
The only remnants of this are the pronouns, irregulars, and the plural form. There are a few irregular plurals and a few masculine / feminine pairs.
The only remnants of this are the pronouns, irregulars, and the plural form. There are a few irregular plurals and a few masculine / feminine pairs.
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Just on the basis of the title of this thread, I really wanted to respond, "Nouns? No thank you, I have plenty of nouns."
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Cool BreezeThe genitive remains:This boy's book.These boys' books. CBAnd I'd add an instrumental case as a form of declension in English, as in: They did it with love.
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SurferI'm sorry, but I still don't understand: What is declining?When I studied Latin, we had to practice declining nouns. The nouns took different endings depending on the case. There was nominative case, genitive case, accusative case, dative case and a few other cases.
We had to practice many different nouns because the endings were different depe
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Hello how are you?
declining means that we have in German 4 cases. On this site you finde a good explanation: https://language-easy.org/german/grammar/sentences/
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