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- German_declension abstract "German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways nouns can change their form to reflect their role in the sentence: subject, object, etc. Declension allows speakers to mark a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead of indicating this meaning through word order or prepositions (e.g. English, Spanish, French). As a result, German can take a much more fluid approach to word order without the meaning being obscured. In English, a simple sentence must be written in strict word order (ex. John sees Mary). This sentence cannot be expressed in any other word order than how it is written here without substituting one word with a synonym. A transliteration of the same sentence from German to English would appear rather different (ex. John-subject sees Mary-directobject) and can be expressed with a variety of word order (ex. Mary-subject is seen by John-directobject) with little or no change in meaning.As a fusional language, German marks nouns, pronouns, articles, and adjectives to distinguish case, number, and gender. For example all German adjectives have several different forms. The adjective "new" (neu), for example, can be written in five different ways (neue, neuer, neues, neuen, neuem) depending on the gender of the noun that it modifies, whether the noun is singular or plural, and the role of the noun in the sentence. English completely lacks such declensions, meaning that an adjective can be written in only one form.Modern High German distinguishes between four cases—nominative, accusative, genitive, and dative—and three grammatical genders—feminine, masculine, and neuter. Nouns may also be either singular or plural; in the plural, one declension is used regardless of gender―meaning that plural can be treated as a fourth "gender" for the purposes of declining articles and adjectives. However, the nouns themselves retain several ways of forming plurals which often, but not always, correspond with the word's gender and structure in the singular. For example, many feminine nouns which, in the singular, end in e, like die Reise ("the journey"), form the plural by adding -n: die Reisen ("the journeys"). Many neuter or masculine nouns ending in a consonant, like das Blatt or der Baum ("the leaf" and "the tree") form plurals by a change of vowel and appending -er or -e: die Blätter and die Bäume ("the leaves", "the trees"). Historically, these and several further plural inflections recall the noun declension classes of Proto-Germanic, but in much reduced form.".
- German_declension wikiPageID "3857097".
- German_declension wikiPageRevisionID "598532205".
- German_declension hasPhotoCollection German_declension.
- German_declension subject Category:Declension.
- German_declension subject Category:German_declension.
- German_declension subject Category:German_grammar.
- German_declension comment "German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways nouns can change their form to reflect their role in the sentence: subject, object, etc. Declension allows speakers to mark a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead of indicating this meaning through word order or prepositions (e.g. English, Spanish, French).".
- German_declension label "Declinación del alemán".
- German_declension label "Declinação na língua alemã".
- German_declension label "Deutsche Deklination".
- German_declension label "Déclinaisons allemandes".
- German_declension label "German declension".
- German_declension label "Падеж в немецком языке".
- German_declension sameAs Deutsche_Deklination.
- German_declension sameAs Declinación_del_alemán.
- German_declension sameAs Déclinaisons_allemandes.
- German_declension sameAs Declinação_na_língua_alemã.
- German_declension sameAs m.0b3kyp.
- German_declension sameAs Q1202312.
- German_declension sameAs Q1202312.
- German_declension wasDerivedFrom German_declension?oldid=598532205.
- German_declension isPrimaryTopicOf German_declension.