Gesund bleiben: abstract adjectival neuter nouns, adding '-los'
I can form neuter adjectival nouns with ‘wenig’ and ‘viel’ and create adjectives from nouns in the context of health.
Gesund bleiben: abstract adjectival neuter nouns, adding '-los'
I can form neuter adjectival nouns with ‘wenig’ and ‘viel’ and create adjectives from nouns in the context of health.
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Key learning points
- Adjectival nouns, like adjectives, change according to gender, case and the article used with them.
- Following 'wenig' or 'viel' , capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
- Add the suffix '-los' to nouns to create adjectives meaning '-less' or 'without -'.
- [v] in 'viel' is pronounced like English 'f' as in 'Vater', [w] in 'wenig' is pronounced like English 'v' as in 'Welt'.
- [ig] at the end of a word is pronounced as in 'richtig' and a final [s] sounds like the English 's'.
Keywords
Adjectival noun - a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
Viel - word meaning 'a lot', 'much', sometimes followed by a neuter adjectival noun
Wenig - word meaning 'little', often followed by a neuter adjectival noun
Suffix - a group of letters added to the end of a word to change its meaning or how it is used, e.g., '-los'
Common misconception
Adjectival nouns behave like adjectives in every way.
Adjectival nouns, like adjectives, change endings according to gender, case and the article used with them. However, like nouns, they have a grammatical gender and a capital letter. Abstract adjectival nouns are neuter.
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Assessment exit quiz
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