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16 Cards in this Set
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German nouns
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are to be always
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capitalized
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nouns ending in -in
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indicate a female person
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and are therefore feminine
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almost all country names
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are neutrum
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there are though some exceptions like
die USA (Pl) die Schweiz die Türkei der Iran der Irak der Lebanon der Sudan etc |
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strong verbs
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change their stem vowel
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and end in their 3rd principal form in -en
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weak verbs
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do not change their stem vowel
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and add to the stem in their 2nd principal form -te, in their 3rd principal form -t
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mixed verbs
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do change their stem vowel like the strong ones
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and do add -te and -t like the weak ones
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only strong verbs can be
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irregular
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and change their stem vowel in the 2nd and 3rd P Sg Present Tense
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prepositions
aus, nach, bei, seit, von, zu |
always take
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the dative
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when a noun refers to a person
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the word's gender usually corresponds to
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the person's physical gender
solitary exceptions das Mädchen das Fräulein |
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the last element of a compound noun
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can be only
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a noun
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the gender and plural form of the compound noun
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is determined
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by its last element
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1 P Pl =
wir gehen |
3 P Pl = formal =
sie gehen Sie gehen |
infinitive (but sein!)
gehen |
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the diminutive suffixes
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-chen and -lein
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mark neuter nouns
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answers on the question
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WO?
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are to be in the dative case
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strong irregular verbs
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change their stem vowel
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for 2nd and 3rd Person Singular in the Present Tense
ich spreche, du sprichst |
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nouns ending in -ung
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are always
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feminine
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