Hello and welcome to the 57th video of 3 Minuten Deutsch.
This video is just an introduction of the topic and will only talk about the rules.
Next week I will talk about the adjectives in nominative.
In the coming weeks I will talk about the other cases.
Awesome Intro Music.
First we have to find out where the adjective should stand in the sentence.
In some languages the adjective is after the noun that the adjective describes,
but in German and in English the adjective stands before the noun.
If there is an article, the adjective is between the article and the noun.
Every adjective has an ending.
Sometimes these letters are the same letters that you see on the der-words (definite articles),
but sometimes they are other letters.
How can one know what ending to use?
First you have to see if there is an article.
If there isn't an article, you have to use the endings that are on the der-words with one exception,
the endings in genitive. There one uses "-en" with masculine and neuter.
If there is a definite article, you use either "-e" or "-en".
If there is an indefinite article,
you use mostly "-en", but in the nominative and accusative you also use "-er" and "-es".
Some teachers and textbooks explain this topic through tables.
They look like this.
Or you can write them together. Then the table looks like this.
Normally, I teach this topic that way too.
If you want to see that, I have already done a few videos about that,
but this time I will do something different.
If you identify the adjectives through their case, you don't have to memorize the tables.
I believe that it is a little easier to learn this topic this way,
but I will also use the other method in order to explain these endings.
For today, I will simply write a few examples
and you can simply notice the adjective endings.
Next week, I will explain why they are what they are.
There is no worksheet for this video on my Patreon page,
but I uploaded these tables there.
That is all for today. Thanks for watching. Until next time. Bye.