PLURALS


  1. singular or plurals
  2. Plurals explained with many examples from the German Language Course CD
  3. My gender and plurals torture exercise. Use your handouts!!!
  4. My crossword with plurals. Use your handouts!!!
  5. NEW: Adjective endings in the Nominative Case with Definite Articles

  6. Explanation and Practice of Plurals of Nouns: i.e., das Kind / die Kinder.
  7. Deutsch Online - Plurals explained and do Plurals #1 and 2.
  8. 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.
  9. Choose the correct Plural form: from Denmark
  10. Subjects and Objects. Complete the following sentences. Repeat until 90%.
  11. Katherine Munro's collection of plurals for nouns and articles
  12. 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