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singular plural
First person ich wir
Second person du Ihr (informal)
sie Sie (formal)
Third person Er (masculine) Sie
Sie (feminine)
Es (neutral)
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Of course, it might seem to you that the gender of a noun varies completely randomly. But
here are some good news: Luckily, there are certain rules that determine whether a noun
is masculine, feminine or neuter. Of course, there are exceptions, as you can find them in
every language – don’t care too much and take a look at the following guidelines.
Words ending in -or, -ling, -smus, or -ig are nearly always masculine.
Examples: der Rotor (the rotor), der Liebling (the favorite), der Egoismus (the egotism), der
Honig (the honey)
Words ending in -ung, -keit, -schaft, –tät, -ik, -tion, -heit, or -ei are feminine.
Examples: die Beleidigung (the insult), die Beständigkeit (the stability), die Kundschaft (the
clientele), die Banalität (the banality), die Romantik (the romance), die Deklination (the
declension), die Schönheit (the beauty) and die Schreinerei (the carpentry)
Words ending in -chen, -ma, -um, -ment, -lein, or -tum are neuter.
Examples: das Mädchen (the girl), das Enigma (the enigma), das Judentum (the judaism), das
Firmament (the firmament)
And here you have some general tricks and rules for declension:
In case you have given the nominative singular, genitive singular, and nominative
plural of a noun, it should be no problem for you to determine its declension.
Mostly, all singular forms for feminine nouns are the same!
In a great number of cases, German nouns in their dative and accusative forms do not
take declension.
German Pronouns
1. Personal Pronouns:
Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive
Ich I Mich Me Mir Me, to Meiner Mine
me
Du You Dich You Dir You, to Deiner Yours
you
Er He Ihn Him Ihm Him, to seiner his
him
Sie She Sie Her Ihr Her, to Ihrer Hers
her
Es It Es It Ihm It, to it Seiner Its
Wir We Uns Us Uns Us, to Unser Ours
us
Ihr You Euch you Euch You, to Euer Yours
you
Sie They Sie Them Ihnen Them, Ihrer Theirs
to them
sie You Sie You Ihnen You, to Ihrer Yours
(formal) (formal) you (formal)
(formal)
And here are three verbs with that vowel change. Notice that in the
first two verbs, the 2nd and 3rd person singular seem the same. This
is just because the du ending -st merged with the -s- of the verb
stem. This is unrelated to the vowel change.
Vowel change in some verbs
A few common verbs change the vowel in the second and third
person singular.
from a to ä
from e to i(e)
Wollen and mögen
Wollen (to want) and mögen (to like) follow a different conjugation system: