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.
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
- Following 'etwas', capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
- Following 'alles', capitalise an adjective and add '-e' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
- German verbs can be nominalised as neuter nouns, and used with or without 'das'.
- 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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