Zukunftsentscheidungen: nominalisation of infinitives, adding '-ung'
I can create nouns from verbs and use a range of vocabulary in the context of future education and work plans.
- Year 10
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Zukunftsentscheidungen: nominalisation of infinitives, adding '-ung'
I can create nouns from verbs and use a range of vocabulary in the context of future education and work plans.
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Key learning points
- Infinitive verbs can be turned into nouns and correspond to English '-ing' nouns, e.g., 'das Lesen' - 'reading'.
- Infinitives as nouns are capitalised and are always neuter. They can be used with or without 'das'.
- The suffix '-ung' is added to the stem of some verbs to form nouns, e.g., 'die Entscheidung'. They are always feminine.
- Nouns ending in '-ung' have the equivalent and transparent meaning of the verb, e.g., 'lösen' becomes 'Lösung'.
Keywords
Noun - word for a person, place, thing, or activity which has a grammatical gender: masculine, feminine or neuter
Infinitive - form of the verb giving its general meaning, with no subject or tense
Stem - part of the verb that appears in all forms, created by removing the ending of the infinitive
Suffix - a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or how it is used
Common misconception
Nouns created from verbs are always formed from the infinitive and are always neuter.
Nouns can be formed from the infintive and those nouns are always neuter. However, other nouns can be formed from the verb stem rather than the infinitive. Nouns ending in the suffix '-ung' are always feminine.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which word means 'special' or 'particular'?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German and English.
Q4.Sort the words below into the correct order to form the following sentence: 'My brother worked as a lawyer.'
Q5.Translate the following sentence into English: 'Ich bin allergisch gegen Eier.'
Q6.Translate the following sentence into English: 'Das Detail hat mich überrascht.'
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Which statement about nominalisation is incorrect?
Q2.Match the German and English.
Q3.Match the German nouns to the English infinitives they are formed from.
