Identität: language and gender, plurals, weak masculine nouns, 'seit'
Learning outcomes
I can use gender-neutral language and adjectival nouns.
I can recognise and pronounce [ei] and [ie].
Identität: language and gender, plurals, weak masculine nouns, 'seit'
Learning outcomes
I can use gender-neutral language and adjectival nouns.
I can recognise and pronounce [ei] and [ie].
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Key learning points
- Adjectival nouns behave like adjectives.
- Weak masculine nouns such as ‘Name’ add (e)n in every form except singular nominative.
- All dative plural nouns add-n, except plurals ending in -s.
- 'Seit' with the present tense communicates how long unfinished actions have been happening.
- There are several ways to make language gender neutral, including the gender star and pronouns ‘they’ and ‘xier’.
Keywords
Adjectival noun - a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
Weak masculine nouns - a small set of masculine nouns that add -(en) in all forms apart from the nominative singular
Dative plural nouns - nouns that add -n when they are used in the dative plural
Gender-neutral language - language that doesn’t specify gender
Common misconception
Nouns in German only change for the plural, like in English.
Adjectival nouns, weak masculine nouns and dative plural nouns all change their spelling.
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