{"id":15819,"date":"2015-03-24T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/?p=15819"},"modified":"2015-03-24T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:35:52","slug":"german-weak-nouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/15819\/german-weak-nouns","title":{"rendered":"German Weak Nouns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Weak-Nouns\"<\/a><\/p>\n

German Weak Nouns<\/span><\/h2>\n

German nouns can change according to their gender, case and number. This is called “declension”. Some German masculine nouns have a weak declension \u2013 this means that they end in -en<\/span><\/strong>, or if the word ends in a vowel, in -n<\/span><\/strong>. This happens in every case, except in the nominative. Here is a table to illustrate this:
\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/th>\nSingular<\/th>\nPlural<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Nominative Case<\/strong><\/td>\nder Neffe<\/td>\ndie Neffen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Accusative Case<\/strong><\/td>\nden Neffen<\/td>\ndie Neffen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dative Case<\/strong><\/td>\ndem Neffen<\/td>\nden Neffen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Genitive Case<\/strong><\/td>\ndes Neffen<\/td>\nder Neffen<\/td>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nWeak masculine nouns include:<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Those that end in -ant<\/span><\/strong> and -and<\/span><\/strong> like:
    \n–\tder Elefant (elephant)
    \n–\tder Diamant (diamond)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Those that end in -aph<\/span><\/strong> (-af) or -oph<\/span><\/strong> like:
    \n–\tder Paragraf (paragraph)
    \n–\tder Philosoph (philosopher)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Those ending in -t<\/span><\/strong>, like:
    \n–\tder Astronaut (astronaut)
    \n–\tder Komponist (composer)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Those that refer to a masculine person or animal ending in -e<\/span><\/strong>, like:
    \n–\tder Franzose (Frenchman)
    \n–\tder Junge (boy)
    \n–\tder L\u00f6we (lion)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Here are some other common masculine nouns that have a weak declension:\n

    der B\u00e4r (bear)
    \nder Bauer (farmer)
    \nder Held (hero)
    \nder Herr (man)
    \nder Mensch (human being)
    \nder Nachbar (neighbour)
    \nder Name (name)
    \nder Ochse (ox)
    \nder Prinz (prince)
    \nder Spatz (sparrow)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    German Weak Nouns German nouns can change according to their gender, case and number. This is called “declension”. Some German masculine nouns have a weak declension \u2013 this means that they end in -en, or if the word ends in a vowel, in -n. This happens in every case, except in the nominative. Here is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15819"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15827,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15819\/revisions\/15827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}