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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5681 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 1 of 3 15 January 2012 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
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In the book "A Morpho-Syntactic Review of German" by F. Donahue, which I'm enjoying a lot, on page 148 bottom, there is a nice paradigm-table with all declensions for the combination der-words/ein-words/adjectives.
However, I think that in order to keep things simpler, some confusion arises. For instance, the superscript "n" in the masculine/genitive indicates that you must write "schwarzen Kaffees", and in the case of plural/nominative, you use the superscript "n" in "keine jungen Leute". However, when the adjective is alone you use "junge Leute", with the main letter "e". So, I've decided to build a table that would be easier for me to understand. Of course, it is uncertain if someone will agree with my modifications. Anyway, here it is: The order is der/das/die/die(plural). I prefer this way because of similar endings. Colors: *blue = nominative *green = accusative *gray = dative *red = genitive The letter after a plus sign "+" indicates ending addition in the noun. Slash "/" indicates differences between der-words and ein-words. Superscripts = adjective endings. When adjectives are alone, use the rightmost one. version1: 
version2:  Edited by Flarioca on 15 January 2012 at 1:21am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4628 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes | Message 2 of 3 15 January 2012 at 3:01am | IP Logged |
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Naturally, adjectives in the genitive are going to take an -n ending, but apparently
the definite article seems to have been omitted. Der Geschmack des schwarzen Kaffees gefällt mir nicht. Then of course, with the use of an always plural noun like 'die Leute'; when using a 'die' word like 'keine', you'll need to add the additional -n to the adjective. Your table doesn't seem to mention however that some masculine German nouns will take an -es ending in the genitive rather than just an -s. If it works for you, fantastic. It appears to me that you made it even more complicated though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5681 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 3 of 3 15 January 2012 at 3:21am | IP Logged |
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I must emphasize that most of this table is from the book I've mentioned.
Actually, only the slash and the vertical bar adjectives endings are my modifications. The pattern s^s + n indicates exactly this "des schwarzen Kaffees". Yes, additional "e"'s, other minor adjustments and exceptions are lacking. Edited by Flarioca on 15 January 2012 at 3:22am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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