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The German Diminutive Posted by Constanze on Dec 12, 2018
Guten Tag! Today I’m going to tell you about diminutives in German. Diminutives are words that are altered to express a smaller, younger or ‘cuter’ version of themselves. An example of an English diminutive is the word droplet, from the word drop, and the word booklet, from the word book. In English, words often become…
Recognizing neuter nouns in German part 2 Posted by Sandra Rösner on Feb 17, 2012
In my two last posts I discussed that young living beings, continents, and most country and city names are neuter in German. Now I would like to continue with other rules that make German nouns neuter. 1. Diminutives Common German diminutives are the endings “–chen” and “–lein”. When you add these endings to nouns…