KS4 · German · Year 10
Nach der Schule: abstract neuter adjectival nouns, plural adjectival nouns
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Your learning goal
I can form and use adjectival nouns to talk about after-school activities.
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I can form and use adjectival nouns to talk about after-school activities.
Key learning points
- Adjectives can be turned into neuter nouns to express abstract concepts, e.g., ‘das Gute’ - 'the good thing'.
- To form an abstract adjectival noun, use 'das', capitalise the adjective, and add '-e' in nominative and accusative.
- Using abstract adjectival nouns can help to vary and extend opinions, e.g., ‘das Beste (daran) ist, dass ...'.
- Plural adjectival nouns end in '-en' when used after 'die'.
- Plural adjectival nouns used without articles end in 'e' in nominative and accusative and 'en' in dative.
Words to know
- adjectival noun
- a type of noun that takes the same ending as adjectives
Common mistakes
Plural adjectival nouns always end in '-en'.
All plural adjectival nouns preceded by 'die' and all in the dative end in '-en', but for plural adjectival nouns without articles, use '-e' in the nominative and accusative.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Learning Cycle 1 covers Higher-tier grammar. However, all pupils will gain substantial communicative value from adding the most common abstract neuter adjectival nouns to their repertoire, e.g., 'das Gute', 'das Beste'.