KS3 · German · Year 7
Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns
In the classroom: 'sein', nouns, articles, questions
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Your learning goal
I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.
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I can capitalise and apply grammatical gender to nouns and ask and answer where something is.
Key learning points
- [a] can be short or long, but an 'e' at the end of a word is always very short, for example 'danke'.
- All German nouns start with a capital letter.
- German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
- Wo ist ..?', meaning 'Where is ... ?' is followed by the definite article and noun for simple location questions.
- Simple location questions can be answered using 'ist' (is) and 'hier' (here) or 'da' (there).
Words to know
- [a]
- pronounced [a] as in 'kalt' and [a] as in 'sagen'
- noun
- a word for a person, place, or thing
- der, die, das
- words for 'the'
- wo ist?
- where is?
Common mistakes
Only proper nouns have a capital letter.
In German, all nouns, regardless of where they are in a sentence, have a capital letter.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Cycle 3 slides 27-30: Say the gender of either one and students respond by either turning their heads to the left or right or pointing at the correct picture. This can be framed as the partially completed question 'Wo ist der/die/das?'.