Year 11 - German
Deutsche Geschichte: adjective agreement, adjectival nouns
Communication and the world around us: Geschichte
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Unit Summary
This unit revisits known grammar in the context of German and Austrian history. Pupils revise perfect tense and simple past, negation, word order and adjective agreement.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply your knowledge of vocabulary to identify relationships between words and support your understanding of longer texts, and can confidently use adjective endings and adjectival nouns.
Key Notes
- Exploring relationships between words supports your understanding of language in different contexts.
- Adjective agreement occurs when adjectives precede a noun. Do not add endings to adjectives after a noun.
- Adjective endings change depending on the gender, case and number of the noun they describe.
- Neuter adjectival nouns express abstract concepts and use the ending '-e' in nominative and accusative.
- Plural adjectival nouns end in '-en' after 'die'. Without articles, use '-e' in nominative and accusative; '-en' dative.
Vocabulary To Learn
- adjective agreement: when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender, case and number
- adjectival noun: a type of noun that takes the same endings as adjectives
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- There is one set of adjective endings in German.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.
Exploring relationships between words supports your understanding of language in different contexts. Adjective agreement occurs when adjectives precede a noun. Do not add endings to adjectives after a noun.
2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'adjective agreement'
when the ending of an adjective matches the noun it describes in gender, case and number. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.
3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.
Mistake: There is one set of adjective endings in German. Correction: Adjective endings agree in case, gender and number with nouns, and there are different sets of adjective endings, depending on what word comes before the adjective. There are useful tables that can be learned to support correct usage.
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