Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Let's learn german (Wir lernen Deutsch) 6

We will learn few rules and formal representation of nouns today.

Link to previous session.

Link to translate and listen

General Rules

* For all the nouns the first letter should be capital irrespective of its position in a statement
* If 'a'  'o'  'u' preceeds  'ch' the sound will be english 'KH'
* When 'S' is followed by any vowel it will take half sound of  english 'Z'
* All nouns fall in three categories (masculine - der, feminine -die, neutral-das)
* All genders are represented by articles.
* When a vowel is followed by one consonant the vowel is pronounced long
* Most verbs end with 'en' and 'n'
* Personal pronouns  for der, die and das are  er, sie and es respectively
* Plural for der/die/das is die.
* Notation
 
                  (article short form ) (noun) , (plural postfix)
                   example:

                   Singular : der Liebling   Plural : die Lieblinge
                    is written as

                                            r Liebling, -e

* Always 'ei' sounds as 'i' and 'ie' sounds as 'e'.
* For composite words, the article is the same as article for the last word
das Jahr  + e Zeit = e Jahreszeit


Examples:


Meaning

Notation

Favourite r Liebling,-e
Idea e Vorstellung, -en
Book s Buch, -..er Bücher
Voice e Stimme, -n
Rule e Regel, -n
Exception e Ausnahme, -n
Table r Tisch, -e
Bag e Tasche, -n
Day r Tag, -e
Season e Jahreszeit, -en
Week e Week, -n
Year s Jahr, -e
Time e Zeit,  -en
Cheese r Käse, -n


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