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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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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

  1. Infinitive verbs can be turned into nouns and correspond to English '-ing' nouns, e.g., 'das Lesen' - 'reading'.
  2. Infinitives as nouns are capitalised and are always neuter. They can be used with or without 'das'.
  3. The suffix '-ung' is added to the stem of some verbs to form nouns, e.g., 'die Entscheidung'. They are always feminine.
  4. 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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If time allows, encourage students to discuss and edit their translations for Task C3, practising moving between using nouns and verbs to express the same thing.
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6 Questions

Q1.
Which word means 'special' or 'particular'?
Correct answer: besondere
bestimmt
etwas
geöffnet
schnell
Q2.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:sich amüsieren,to have, having fun

to have, having fun

Correct Answer:sich befinden,to be located, situated

to be located, situated

Correct Answer:behaupten,to claim, claiming

to claim, claiming

Correct Answer:sich finden,to be found, to find oneself

to be found, to find oneself

Correct Answer:hoffen,to hope, hoping

to hope, hoping

Correct Answer:drohen,to threaten, threatening

to threaten, threatening

Q3.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:Alltag (m),daily routine, everyday life

daily routine, everyday life

Correct Answer:Beruf (m),job, occupation, profession

job, occupation, profession

Correct Answer:Entschuldigung (f),apology, excuse, sorry!

apology, excuse, sorry!

Correct Answer:Flughafen (m),airport

airport

Correct Answer:Lage (f),situation, location

situation, location

Correct Answer:Zeugnis (nt),report

report

Q4.
Sort the words below into the correct order to form the following sentence: 'My brother worked as a lawyer.'
1 - mein
2 - Bruder
3 - hat
4 - als
5 - Anwalt
6 - gearbeitet
Q5.
Translate the following sentence into English: 'Ich bin allergisch gegen Eier.'
Correct Answer: I am allergic to eggs.
Q6.
Translate the following sentence into English: 'Das Detail hat mich überrascht.'
Correct Answer: The detail surprised me., The detail has surprised me.

6 Questions

Q1.
Which statement about nominalisation is incorrect?
Nouns ending in '-ung' are always feminine.
Correct answer: Nouns formed from verbs are always neuter.
Nouns can be formed from a verb infinitive.
Nouns can be formed from a verb stem.
Nouns formed from verbs always have capital letters.
Q2.
Match the German and English.
Correct Answer:planen,to plan

to plan

Correct Answer:das Planen,planning

planning

Correct Answer:geplant,planned

planned

Correct Answer:plane,(I) plan

(I) plan

Q3.
Match the German nouns to the English infinitives they are formed from.
Correct Answer:die Ausbildung,to train, training

to train, training

Correct Answer:die Entscheidung,to decide, deciding

to decide, deciding

Correct Answer:die Lösung,to solve, solving

to solve, solving

Correct Answer:die Verletzung,to injure, injuring

to injure, injuring

Correct Answer:die Erinnerung,to remind, remember

to remind, remember

Correct Answer:die Beschreibung,to describe, describing

to describe, describing

Q4.
The noun 'die Veränderung' comes from the German infinitive verb ' '.
Correct Answer: verändern, veraendern
Q5.
Translate the following sentence into German: 'Singing is boring.'. Use nominalisation.
Correct Answer: Singen ist langweilig., Das Singen ist langweilig.
Q6.
Translate the following sentence into German: 'Dancing is fun.'. Use nominalisation.
Correct Answer: Tanzen macht Spaß., Das Tanzen macht Spaß., Tanzen macht Spass., Das Tanzen macht Spass.

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