Year 10 - German
Junge Deutsche: neuter adjectival nouns, nominalisation, adjectival agreement
Studying and my future: Aufwachsen, Altersgrenzen und Zukunftspläne
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Unit Summary
This unit revisits a wide range of grammar, including modal verbs, the future tense, two-verb structures. It introduces the conditional 'würd-' with gern and lieber and 'hätte' and wäre'. Pupils learn to distinguish müssen vs sollen, and dürfen vs können regarding responsibilites and future plans.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use neuter adjectival nouns with 'etwas' and 'alles', and verbs as nouns, to extend your understanding of career options for young Germans.
Key Notes
- Following 'etwas', capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
- Following 'alles', capitalise an adjective and add '-e' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
- German verbs can be nominalised as neuter nouns, and used with or without 'das'.
- Adjectives change spelling depending on case and gender.
Vocabulary To Learn
- adjectival noun: a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
- etwas: indefinite pronoun meaning 'something', often followed by a neuter adjectival noun
- alles: indefinite pronoun meaning 'everything', often followed by a neuter adjectival noun
- nominalisation: turning verbs into nouns
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When an adjective follows 'ein', always add 'en'.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Following 'etwas', capitalise an adjective and add '-es' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun. Following 'alles', capitalise an adjective and add '-e' to turn it to a neuter adjectival noun.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'adjectival noun'
a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: When an adjective follows 'ein', always add 'en'. Correction: Adjective endings reflect the case and gender of the word they refer to. Dative case adjectives end in -en. In nominative and accusative, use -e for feminine and -es for neuter. Masculine -er and -en match (d)er (nominative) and (d)en (accusative).
More Lessons In This Unit
- Berufe: 'werden' + infinitive, wh-questions in future and conditional tenses Study Guide
- Berufserfahrung: 'Sie', 'Ihnen', interrogatives 'wer', 'wen', 'wem' Study Guide
- Berufserfahrung: verbs with indirect objects, dative pronouns Study Guide
- Das Pfandsystem: word order with 'wenn', inversion, plural nouns Study Guide
- Hitzefrei: 'müssen' vs 'sollen', 'sollen' vs 'sollte' Study Guide
- Junge Deutsche: telling the time, uses of 'es' Study Guide
- Junge Deutsche: weak plural masculine nouns, feminine person nouns Study Guide
- Meine Pläne: adding -er to verb stems for male agent nouns, extended writing Study Guide
- Pläne: word order with 'sobald', 'solange' and 'wenn' Study Guide
- Was darf man ab wann? 'Dürfen' vs 'können', wh- questions and modal verbs Study Guide
- Wenn ich 16 bin: würd- with gern and lieber, imperfect subjunctive hätte, wäre Study Guide
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