How to learn the declension of nouns in German

So, if we talk about the declension of nouns in the German language, then we should first say about the peculiarities of the language itself. And there are a lot of them in this case.

Case, male and female declensions

In the given language of the Romano-Germanic group, there are four kinds of declension of these independent parts of speech. They are divided into mixed (special), feminine, weak and, accordingly, strong. The main task is to determine the regularity in the declination process in each of the cases, which are four in German. Nominative (in translation - Nominativ) answers questions such as "wer?" And "was?". Genitive, which translates as Genetiv, to the question "wessen?". It is followed by the dative, Dativ, - "wem?", "Wo?", As well as accusative, Akkusativ, - "wen?", "Was?", "Wohin?". Strong declination is determined by the ending "s" in the genitive, to this case belongs most of the nouns that are representatives of the masculine gender, as well as all belonging to the middle genus. The exception is the "heart" - Das Herz. If we talk about the weak declension of nouns in the German language, then in this case the end will be a sign e (n) - it concerns all cases. The exception is the noun mr, which defines living beings. The simplest thing is with the female declension - there are no endings.

Special type and plural

It was said that German is different in some ways. The declension of the nouns of the previously mentioned mixed type, refers to one of those. Here only a few words stand out, they should be listed and remembered! Das Herz (translated as "heart"), der Schaden ("damage"), der Frieden (translation - "Peace", although there is a synonym for Welt, changing by all rules), der Wille ("Will"), der Same (" Seed "), der Glaube (" faith "), der Gedanke (translated as" thought ", but can be replaced by the synonym idea), der Funke (" spark "), der Buchstabe (" letter "), der Name (" name " ). The following words have the following declension of nouns in German: on e (ns) they end in the genitive case, and on e (n) - in the dative and accusative. Slightly easier to decline in the plural. Here all follows one rule: in Dativ the ending on n, only with one exception. If the noun is converted from units. H, it gets the suffixes s or n.

About the power of decline

So, in this language, unlike the Russian, there are only four cases. If we talk about declination, then there are three types in which words change. This is a strong decline, weak and mixed. If in German, then s-Deklination, n-Deklination and gemischte Deklination. Many names of nouns have no endings, only the article changes in the word. Almost all dative words end in n, the same applies to female nouns. Although there is a feature. Nouns f. R. And vary according to the female declension. All forms of the singular are exactly the same as the nominative case, and the plural words end in any case on en.

The strong type has its own characteristics. The fact is that according to this type the words of the middle, as well as the masculine gender, are inclined. Here it should be noted that the listed words in Nominativ have either a null ending, or -er, -e. Weak declination has a distinctive feature in the form of the ending -en. It is in every form, with the exception of Nominativ. By the weak type, the names of the masculine gender end in -loge, -ant, -e, -and, -ist, -af, etc., are changed. Mostly these are words that denote professions, nationality and living beings.

How to remember

Declination of nouns in German is a difficult subject. And very important, because in order to speak normally, so that native speakers can understand the speaker, one must be able to change words by declension. The German language is very rich, so it will be easy to train, for this you can draw up diagrams or tables with endings and cases.Thus, two types of memory will work: visual and sound, and the process of memorization will go much more productively The table can be compiled in this form (for example, the words "person", "lord", "student", "name" are taken):
N: der: Mensch, Herr, Student, Name.
A: den: Mensch (en), Herr (n), Student (en), Name (n).
D: dem: Mensch (en), Herr (n), Student (en), Name (n).
G: des: Mensch (en), Herr (n), Student (en), Name (ns).

Even from such a simple example, one can see that learning and memorizing on such a table is quite simple. The most important thing, as in any other language, is to find the pattern by which the memorization process will look logical and consistent.