Nouns German grammar
1 nouns 1.1 gender 1.2 plural 1.3 case 1.3.1 general 1.3.2 genitive 1.3.3 dative 1.3.4 cases after prepositions nouns a german noun – excluding pluralia tantum – has 1 of 3 specific grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter). nouns declined case , grammatical number (singular, plural). in german, nouns capitalized, not proper nouns. gender german has 3 genders of late proto-indo-european—the masculine, feminine, , neuter. german nouns of 1 of these genders. nouns denoting person, such die frau ( woman ) or der mann ( man ), agree natural gender of described. however, since diminutive forms ending in -chen or -lein grammatically neuter, there exist several notable counterexamples such das mädchen ( girl ) , das fräulein ( miss ). these not illogical, whereas das weib (old, regional or anthropological: woman; cognate of english wife ) exception. furthermore, in german, gender of nouns without natural gender not predictable. example, 3 common pieces of cutlery have different gende...