Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns
Learning outcomes
I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.
I can pronounce short and long [a] sound correctly.
Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns
Learning outcomes
I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.
I can pronounce short and long [a] sound correctly.
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Key learning points
- [a] can be short or long, but an 'e' at the end of a word is always very short, for example 'danke'.
- All German nouns start with a capital letter.
- German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
- Wo ist ..?', meaning 'Where is ... ?' is followed by the definite article and noun for simple location questions.
- Simple location questions can be answered using 'ist' (is) and 'hier' (here) or 'da' (there).
Keywords
[a] - pronounced [a] as in 'kalt' and [a] as in 'sagen'
Noun - a word for a person, place, or thing
Der, die, das - words for 'the'
Wo ist? - where is?
Common misconception
Only proper nouns have a capital letter.
In German, all nouns, regardless of where they are in a sentence, have a capital letter.
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Starter quiz
6 Questions
Way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter
Refers to physical gender e.g. male, female
(the) window
(the) table
(the) bottle