KS4 · German · Year 10
Zukunftsentscheidungen: nominalisation of infinitives, adding '-ung'
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Your learning goal
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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I can create nouns from verbs and use a range of vocabulary in the context of future education and work plans.
Key learning points
- Infinitive verbs can be turned into nouns and correspond to English '-ing' nouns, e.g., 'das Lesen' - 'reading'.
- Infinitives as nouns are capitalised and are always neuter. They can be used with or without 'das'.
- The suffix '-ung' is added to the stem of some verbs to form nouns, e.g., 'die Entscheidung'. They are always feminine.
- Nouns ending in '-ung' have the equivalent and transparent meaning of the verb, e.g., 'lösen' becomes 'Lösung'.
Words to know
- 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 mistakes
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.
For parents, carers and teachers
- 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.