ABSTRACT

Between the determiner and the noun you may find one or more ADJECTIVES (see chapter 4) or even – unlike English – long adjectival phrases that give additional information about the noun:

Determiners play an important part in indicating the role of the noun phrase in the sentence. To do this they have endings that indicate GENDER, NUMBER and CASE. Similarly, the form of pronouns changes depending on their grammatical role. In order to understand German well and produce comprehensible sentences, you need to learn these forms and pay attention to the endings in their context.