Deutsche Geschichte: adjective agreement, adjectival nouns
I can apply my knowledge of vocabulary to identify relationships between words and support my understanding of longer texts, and can confidently use adjective endings and adjectival nouns.
- Year 11
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Deutsche Geschichte: adjective agreement, adjectival nouns
I can apply my knowledge of vocabulary to identify relationships between words and support my understanding of longer texts, and can confidently use adjective endings and adjectival nouns.
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Key learning points
- Exploring relationships between words supports your understanding of language in different contexts.
- Adjective agreement occurs when adjectives precede a noun. Do not add endings to adjectives after a noun.
- Adjective endings change depending on the gender, case and number of the noun they describe.
- Neuter adjectival nouns express abstract concepts and use the ending '-e' in nominative and accusative.
- Plural adjectival nouns end in '-en' after 'die'. Without articles, use '-e' in nominative and accusative; '-en' dative.
Keywords
Adjective agreement - when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender, case and number
Adjectival noun - a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
Common misconception
There is one set of adjective endings in German.
Adjective endings agree in case, gender and number with nouns, and there are different sets of adjective endings, depending on what word comes before the adjective. There are useful tables that can be learned to support correct usage.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the opposite of 'nass'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.Order the words to say: 'The enormous hotel was not cheap.'
Q5.Write in English: 'Dieses Gebäude ist hässlich.'
Q6.Write in German: 'I have a yellow jacket.'
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Match the German and English.
