PLURALS
singular or plurals
- Plurals explained with many examples from the German Language Course CD
My gender and plurals torture exercise. Use your handouts!!!
- My crossword with plurals. Use your handouts!!!
- NEW: Adjective endings in the Nominative Case with Definite Articles
- Explanation and Practice of Plurals of Nouns: i.e., das Kind / die Kinder.
- Deutsch Online - Plurals explained and do Plurals #1 and 2.
- From Belgium on Plurals One, Two and Three. Very tough! You might want to open a new browser window and look some of these up with a dictionary.
- Choose the correct Plural form: from Denmark
- Subjects and Objects. Complete the following sentences. Repeat until 90%.
- Katherine Munro's collection of plurals for nouns and articles
- OTHER PROGRAMS - Dashers: Chapter 5, Wortleiter: Kleider, Schule
GERMAN NOUNS: always learn every noun's meaning, its gender and its plural
German noun plurals all take die for their article and are formed by following these patterns:
1. No ending (stem vowel may take an Umlaut in some cases):
das Fenster-, die Fenster
der Garten- , die Gärten
2. Add -e (stem vowel may take an Umlaut in some cases):
der Tisch -e, die Tische
der Stuhl - e, die Stühle
3. Add -er (stem vowel may take an Umlaut in some cases):
das Kind-er, die Kinder
das Buch- er, die Bücher
4. Add -en , -n , or -nen (stem vowel does not change):
die Frau-en, die Frauen
die Studentin-nen, die Studentinnen
der Junge-n, die Jungen
5. Add -s (stem vowel does not change):
das Auto-s, die Autos
das Radio-s, die Radios