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Junge Deutsche: neuter adjectival nouns, nominalisation, adjectival agreement

I can use neuter adjectival nouns with 'etwas' and 'alles', and verbs as nouns, to extend my understanding of career options for young Germans.

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Junge Deutsche: neuter adjectival nouns, nominalisation, adjectival agreement

I can use neuter adjectival nouns with 'etwas' and 'alles', and verbs as nouns, to extend my understanding of career options for young Germans.

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Key learning points

  1. Following 'etwas', capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
  2. Following 'alles', capitalise an adjective and add '-e' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
  3. German verbs can be nominalised as neuter nouns, and used with or without 'das'.
  4. Adjectives change spelling depending on case and gender.

Keywords

  • Adjectival noun - a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives

  • Etwas - indefinite pronoun meaning ‘something’, often followed by a neuter adjectival noun

  • Alles - indefinite pronoun meaning ‘everything’, often followed by a neuter adjectival noun

  • Nominalisation - turning verbs into nouns

Common misconception

When an adjective follows 'ein', always add 'en'.

Adjective endings reflect the case and gender of the word they refer to. Dative case adjectives end in -en. In nominative and accusative, use -e for feminine and -es for neuter. Masculine -er and -en match (d)er (nominative) and (d)en (accusative).


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Encourage students to recognise nominalised verbs and to translate them into English using '-ing', e.g., das Lernen - learning. Also encourage the use of 'etwas' and 'alles' with neuter adjectival nouns for greater variety and confidence in writing and speaking.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:System (n),system
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system

Correct Answer:Temperatur (f),temperature
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temperature

Correct Answer:Tätowierung (f),tattoo
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tattoo

Correct Answer:Ziel (n),destination, goal
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destination, goal

Correct Answer:Ordnung (f),order, tidiness
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order, tidiness

Correct Answer:Beziehung (f),relationship
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relationship

Q2.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:interessant,interesting
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interesting

Correct Answer:nötig,necessary
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necessary

Correct Answer:möglich,possible
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possible

Correct Answer:kompliziert,complicated
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complicated

Correct Answer:mutig,brave
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brave

Correct Answer:wichtig,important
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important

Q3.
'Das ist __________ Buch.'. Choose the correct missing words.
ein guter
eine gute
Correct answer: ein gutes
einen guten
Q4.
'Ich sehe __________ Film.'. Choose the correct missing words.
ein lustiger
eine lustige
ein lustiges
Correct answer: einen lustigen
Q5.
'Ich arbeite mit __________ Frau.'. Choose the correct missing words.
einen netten
einem netten
eine nette
Correct answer: einer netten
Q6.
Sort the words below into the correct order to form the following sentence: 'My work as an actor is fun for me.'
1 - meine
2 - Arbeit
3 - als
4 - Schauspieler
5 - macht
6 - mir
7 - Spaß

6 Questions

Q1.
Turning German verbs into nouns, e.g., 'das Hochladen', is called .
Correct Answer: nominalisation
Q2.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:Chef,boss
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boss

Correct Answer:Künstler,artist
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artist

Correct Answer:Lehrer,teacher
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teacher

Correct Answer:Sänger,singer
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singer

Correct Answer:Anwalt,lawyer
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lawyer

Correct Answer:Dichter,poet
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poet

Q3.
Which of these words means 'to lead, guide'?
Gefahr
gefährlich
fahren
Correct answer: führen
Fahrer
Q4.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:fallen,to fall, falling
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to fall, falling

Correct Answer:falle,(I) fall, am falling
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(I) fall, am falling

Correct Answer:fällst,(you) fall, are falling
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(you) fall, are falling

Correct Answer:fällt,(she, he, it) falls, is falling
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(she, he, it) falls, is falling

Q5.
Translate the following sentence into German: 'You win everything possible.'
Correct Answer: Du gewinnst alles Mögliche., Du gewinnst alles Moegliche.
Q6.
Translate the following sentence into German: 'I do something interesting.'
Correct Answer: Ich mache etwas Interessantes.

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