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| Logie100 Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 5317 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 9 19 August 2011 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Am I the only one who finds it a bother looking at tables to find out how to decline a noun and the definite article? I made a solution. A tree chart where you find the gender of the noun, then simply choose which case you want. This is also a lot easier to memorize and picture in your head than a table, I find. I hope you guys like it! Just for reference, Die Kazte, Der Mann and Das Brot are used as model nouns for each gender
Here it is:  Edited by Logie100 on 20 August 2011 at 1:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5381 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 9 19 August 2011 at 3:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Personally, I would rather see a sentence with all 8 possibilities (def, indef, 3 genders, plural) displayed in a 2-column table, such as "Ich habe X gesehen", where you replace the X with a table. And then another sentence with a dative example, and so forth. You can even colour code the genders if you prefer. At least, it puts the grammatical forms in a real context you can use.
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| Logie100 Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 5317 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 3 of 9 19 August 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well maybe you could make that :)
Its just for me, its easy to look at one step, then go down to the other, and so on. And with some effort, I could memorize the diagram and have it in my head whenever I need it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5599 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 4 of 9 19 August 2011 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | ||
The tree chart you draw is a declination table rotated by 90°, therefore I do not see the advantage. But others might find it more helpful because it does not look so squary and boxy like the traditional approach.
"You conjugate verbs, but you decline nouns" bemoans a weisenheimer learned in Latin like me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 5 of 9 19 August 2011 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Junge-group is not represented.
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| Logie100 Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 5317 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 6 of 9 20 August 2011 at 1:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, what is the Junge group?
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| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5599 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 7 of 9 20 August 2011 at 3:05am | IP Logged | ||
I guess, der Junge, des Jungen (the boy) uses endings different from der Mann, des Mannes (the man), but as a native speaker I do not really know the systematic groups. Edited by Cabaire on 20 August 2011 at 3:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Logie100 Diglot Newbie New Zealand Joined 5317 days ago 35 posts - 46 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 8 of 9 20 August 2011 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I'm sure it wont matter. this is just a general chart, of course there are excpetions to the rule.
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