Hello again. Today my puppets and I will teach you the plural forms of nouns.
Don't forget to turn on the subtitles and annotations. Let's start.
Hallo noch einmal. Heute werden meine Puppen und ich euch die Pluralformen von Substantiven unterrichten. Vergesst nicht die Untertitel und Anmerkungen anzumachen. Los geht’s.
I will never understand this. German is so difficult.
(Sigh) What is going on here? Why are you like this?
I have tried to learn German.
I now understand "der, die and das" and "den, die and das" and even "wer, wen and was"
I understand conjugation and word order with questions and statements.
I can understand all of that.
I have memorized a plethora of genders of nouns.
Then I saw "die Lehrer" instead of "der Lehrer". This language doesn't make any sense.
Sure it does. Everything has its reason.
"Der Lehrer" is the singular form.
"Die Lehrer" is the plural form.
Oh. Is that all that one must do? Simply change "der" to "die"?
And abracadabra the noun is more than one?
Sometimes.
Tell me more.
There are nine categories of plurals.
Number 1:
No change except "die" instead of "der" or "das". No feminine nouns can be in this category. Examples in this category are:
And so on.
That is simple. What is category number 2?
Sometimes one needs an "N" at the end of the noun. For example:
And so on.
That is also simple.
They mostly end with "E" and are feminine.
And number 3? Sometimes one uses "EN" at the end of the noun. For example:
And so on.
Also mostly feminine. Number 4?
Nouns that end with "IN" need "NEN" in plural. These nouns are usually people which one has made to the feminine form. For example:
A female teacher is "die Lehrerin". "Die Lehrerin" in the plural form is "die Lehrerinnen".
A female friend is "die Freundin". "Die Freundin" in the plural is "die Freundinnen".
Do all of the nouns that end with "IN" need "NEN" in the plural?
Yes. Category number 5 needs an "E" in the plural. For example:
And so on.
That is a little more difficult. How should I memorize that?
Well... They are mostly masculine or neuter.
Number 6 needs an umlaut and an "E". For example:
And so on. Number 7?
Number 7 needs an umlaut. For example:
And so on. Number 8?
Number 8 needs an umlaut and "ER" For example:
And so on. And number 9?
Number 9 needs an "S" like in English. For example:
And so on.
Is there a trick here?
Yes. Every noun that ends with "A", "O", or "I" needs an "S" in the plural.
There are also a lot of English cognates in this category.
Ok. Let's see if I understand this correctly. There are nine categories of plural forms of nouns. The categories are:
No change, "N", "EN", "NEN", "E" "¨E", "¨", "¨ER", and "S".
There are a few rules that help to tell which plural form to use, but they don't always help. One must simple memorize the endings.
Yes. Exactly. Do all of the plurals use "die"?
In the nominative and accusative cases, yes. But in the dative and genitive cases, no.
Dative! Genitive! Ahhhh.
I hope that this video helped. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to like, comment and subscribe. Until next time. Bye.
Ich hoffe, dass dieses Video geholfen hat. Danke fürs Zuschauen. Vergesst nicht zu liken, zu kommentieren, und zu Abonnieren. Bis zum nächsten Mal. Tschüss.