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How do I know which gender a noun will be?

There are some suffixes which give hints to the gender. For feminine nouns, these include: -heit (e.g. die Freiheit), -ung (e.g. die Sammlung, with some exceptions, such as Ursprung which is masculine), -sch...
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Answered by Abbas A. • German tutor
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How do cases work in German?

There are 4 cases in German: the nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. The nominative is used for the subject of the sentence (the thing/person doing the action). The accusative is used for direct obj...
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Answered by Marte V. • German tutor
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How would one change 'ich habe' to be in the past tense?

Ich habe = I have We need to arrive at 'Ich habe gehabt' through Auxiliary + Past Participle The two most common and irregular verbs which need to be memorised are 'haben' and 'sein' HABEN: Ich habe - Du has...
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Answered by Anna A. • German tutor
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What is the conditional tense?

The conditional tense is used to say what might happen under certain conditions. It is called the conditional tense because it is dependent on a certain condition- the event can only take place on the condit...
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Answered by Roisin M. • German tutor
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Why does the noun "Der Junge" become "Den Jungen" in the accusative case whereas "Der Mann" just becomes "Den Mann"?

"Der Junge" is an example of something called a Weak Masculine Noun . This sounds more complicated than it actually is. Basically, in German, most nouns are Strong , which means they decline (chang...
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Answered by Adam H. • German tutor
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