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Aspect of the German language
German adjectives come before the noun, as in English, and are usually not capitalized. However, as in French and other Indo-European languages, they
German_adjectives
Part of speech that defines a noun or pronoun
closed class of adjectives, and new adjectives are not easily derived. Similarly, native Japanese adjectives (i-adjectives) are considered a closed class (as
Adjective
Inflection of nouns, adjectives, etc. in German
German declension is the paradigm that German uses to define all the ways articles, adjectives and sometimes nouns can change their form to reflect their
German_declension
West Germanic language
make" or "making". The forms of Low German's adjectives are distinct from other closely related languages such as German and English. These forms fall somewhere
Low_German
are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g., the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and demonyms are also used for other nouns,
List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations
List_of_adjectival_and_demonymic_forms_for_countries_and_nations
German-based creole of Papua New Guinea
Unserdeutsch ('Our German'), or Rabaul Creole German, is a German-based creole language that originated in Papua New Guinea. It is described as a boarding
Unserdeutsch
number, the case and the gender of the corresponding noun. German articles – like adjectives and pronouns – have the same plural forms for all three genders
German_articles
Language
Old High German is an inflected language, and as such its nouns, pronouns, and adjectives must be declined in order to serve a grammatical function. A
Old_High_German_declension
In West Low German parlance the ending "…sch(e)" is sometimes added to surnames of women, related to the standard High German adjective ending "…isch"
German_name
Branch of the Indo-European language family
the i or u classes. Definite adjectives, however, had endings based on n-stem nouns. Originally both types of adjectives could be used by themselves,
Germanic_languages
Adjective that occurs immediately after the noun or pronoun that it complements
including English, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Tagalog, prepositive adjectives are the norm (attributive adjectives normally come before
Postpositive_adjective
Adjectives in the English language
important, and right. Adjectives head adjective phrases, and the most typical members function as modifiers in noun phrases. Most adjectives either inflect for
English_adjectives
distinguished from adjectives by the ending -ly. In German, they may be distinguished by their lack of declension, because adjectives in attributive position
German_adverbial_phrases
Verb conjugation system
strong and weak declensions of German adjectives. This differs from the situation in nouns and verbs in that every adjective can be declined using either
Weak_inflection
English language suffix
and German -lich. It is often added to an adjective to form an adverb. Though the origin of the suffix is Germanic, it may now be added to adjectives of
-ly
Typeface designed for vehicle licence plates
Germany and it has been mandatory on German license plates since November 2000. The abbreviation "FE" is derived from the compound German adjective
FE-Schrift
Adjective that is used as a noun
prop-word, and nominalized adjectives, which in many cases retain inflectional endings, have remained more common. Adjectives in German change their form for
Nominalized_adjective
West Germanic language
France (Alsace). Overseas, sizeable communities of German-speakers are found in the Americas. German is one of the major languages of the world, with nearly
German_language
North Germanic language
are placed in a place–manner–time order, as in English (but not German). Adjectives precede the noun they modify. Verb-second (inverted) word order is
Swedish_language
Adjectives in Japanese
形容動詞 (na-adjective), as the Japanese name indicates. naru-adjectives These are words that were traditionally earlier forms of na-adjectives, but that
Japanese_adjectives
Philosophical concept of "spirit"
Geist (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaɪst] ) is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy. Geist can be roughly translated
Geist
West Germanic language
dem Genitiv sein Tod German adjectives German adverbial phrases German compounds German conjugation German modal particles German sentence structure Germanic
Outline_of_German_language
name "Almain" or "Alman" was used for Germany and for the adjective German until the 16th century, with "German" first attested in 1520, used at first
Names_of_Germany
Adjectives in the Spanish language
("red") → rojo, roja, rojos, rojas Adjectives whose lemma does not end in -o, however, inflect differently. These adjectives almost always inflect only for
Spanish_adjectives
Natural number
(most often ten years) is called a decade. The ordinal form is tenth. The adjectives decimal and denary refer to systems or quantities based on ten. * Increasing
10
Morpheme placed at the end of a word
changes nouns into adjectives) -ish (usually changes nouns into adjectives/class-maintaining, with the word class remaining an adjective) -ful (usually changes
Suffix
Category of words in Proto-Indo-European
English "un-", Latin "in-", Greek "a(n)-") and adjectives (*drḱ-h₂ḱru 'tear', literally 'bitter-eye'). Adjectives in PIE generally have the same form as nouns
Proto-Indo-European_nominals
Psychological experience of something being strangely familiar
specifically relates an aspect of the Uncanny derived from German etymology. By contrasting the German adjective unheimlich with its base word heimlich ("concealed
Uncanny
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Lists_of_languages
German word for "realm" or "empire"
Reich (/raɪk, raɪx/ ryke, raikh; German: [ʁaɪç] ) is a German word whose meaning is analogous to the English word "realm". The terms Kaiserreich and Königreich
Reich
Form of the Latin script used to write Czech language
Německo (Germany), Němec (German). Adjectives derived from geographical names and names of nations, such as anglický (English – adjective) and pražský
Czech_orthography
About a third of them are feminine. More specifically, nouns derived from adjectives with the suffix -nis are primarily feminine. If they describe persons
Grammatical_gender_in_German
Grammar of the German language
The grammar of the German language is quite similar to that of the other Germanic languages. Although some features of German grammar, such as the formation
German_grammar
Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic followed different paths when it came to demographics. The politics of the German Democratic Republic
Demographics_of_Germany
gradually Germanized in the German period of the Alsace-Lorraine. The place names of German-speaking Lorraine were first Germanized, adjectives (top, bottom
Correspondence of Lorraine toponyms in French and German
Correspondence_of_Lorraine_toponyms_in_French_and_German
Words indicating which object is being referred to
or was said earlier. Demonstrative constructions include demonstrative adjectives or demonstrative determiners, which specify nouns (as in Put that coat
Demonstrative
German consonant shift. In recent years, however, many English words have been borrowed directly from German. Typically, English spellings of German loanwords
List of German expressions in English
List_of_German_expressions_in_English
North Germanic language
Predicative adjectives do not inflect for definiteness unlike the attributive adjectives. This means that nouns will have to agree with the adjective when there
Norwegian_language
German form of the Latin alphabet
German alphabet (Listen to a German speaker recite the alphabet in German) Problems playing this file? See media help. The modern German alphabet consists
German_alphabet
Uninflected words used in colloquial spoken German
German modal particles (German: Modalpartikel or Abtönungspartikel) are uninflected words that are used mainly in the spontaneous spoken language in colloquial
German_modal_particles
Orthography used in writing the German language
pronouns in letters); in adjectives at the beginning of proper names (e.g. der Stille Ozean 'the Pacific Ocean'); in adjectives with the suffix '-er' from
German_orthography
Feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages
The degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs are the various forms taken by adjectives and adverbs when used to compare two or more entities (comparative
Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Degrees_of_comparison_of_adjectives_and_adverbs
Sign language predominantly used in Germany
German Sign Language (German: Deutsche Gebärdensprache, DGS) is the sign language of the deaf community in Germany, Luxembourg and the German-speaking
German_Sign_Language
Country in Central Europe (1949–1990)
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification
East_Germany
Part of a clause predicate
acknowledged types of predicative expressions are predicative adjectives (also predicate adjectives) and predicative nominals (also predicate nominals). The
Predicative_expression
Extinct East Germanic language
adjectives are used in other circumstances. Indefinite adjectives generally use a combination of a-stem and ō-stem endings, and definite adjectives use
Gothic_language
Grammar of the Ancient Greek language
preserves several features of Proto-Indo-European morphology. Nouns, adjectives, pronouns, articles, numerals and especially verbs are all highly inflected
Ancient_Greek_grammar
1791 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Magic Flute (German: Die Zauberflöte, pronounced [diː ˈtsaʊbɐˌfløːtə] ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by
The_Magic_Flute
Adjectives in Chinese
Chinese adjectives (simplified Chinese: 形容词; traditional Chinese: 形容詞; pinyin: xíngróngcí) differ from adjectives in English in that they can be used
Chinese_adjectives
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long
List_of_German_abbreviations
Overview of how nouns are used in German
The nouns of the German language have several properties, some unique. As in many related Indo-European languages, German nouns possess a grammatical gender;
German_nouns
Standard pronunciation of the German language
§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Standard German phonology is the standard pronunciation of the German language. It consists of the current phonology
Standard_German_phonology
Japanese noun type
verbs" (literal translation), "adjectival nouns" (nouns that function adjectivally), "na adjectives" (function as adjectives, take na), and "na nominals"
Adjectival_noun_(Japanese)
List of terms used in biology
the common adjectives and other modifiers that repeatedly occur in the scientific names of many organisms (in more than one genus). Adjectives vary according
List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_commonly_used_in_systematic_names
Part of Latin grammar
neuter. Other adjectives such as celer, celeris, celere belong to the third declension. There are no fourth- or fifth-declension adjectives. Pronouns are
Latin_declension
Pan-nationalist political idea
differences in meaning. For example adjectives such as "alldeutsch" or "gesamtdeutsch", which can be translated as "pan-german", typically refer to the Alldeutsche
Pan-Germanism
Country primarily in North America
The term "United States" and its initialism "U.S.", used as nouns or as adjectives in English, are common short names for the country. The initialism "USA"
United_States
Descriptive word with initial capital letter
Proper adjectives are just capitalized adjectives. Most capitalized adjectives derive from proper nouns; for example, the proper adjective American
Proper_adjective
German singer
the German adjective for 'fat', or 'large', or 'bigger'. The person who asked him presumed that this was a German word and asked what the German word
King_Size_Dick
Part of speech that names an object or set of objects
and inflected for case and number. Because adjectives share these three grammatical categories, adjectives typically were placed in the same class as
Noun
Dialect of Low German
translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany). In other Low German dialects, the word for Low German is usually realised as
Plautdietsch
Mental state of inner peace
Calmness or, nonchalance is the mental state of peace of mind, being free from agitation, excitement, or disturbance. It also refers to being in a state
Calmness
Earliest stage of the German language
Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from
Old_High_German
Official language of the country of Georgia
many adjectives in Georgian. From the adjective -brma 'blind', the verbs dabrmaveba 'becoming blind, blinding someone' are derived. From the adjective -lamazi-
Georgian_language
Doctrine of anarchism without any qualifying labels
Anarchism without adjectives is a pluralist tendency of anarchism that opposes sectarianism and advocates for cooperation between different anarchist schools
Anarchism_without_adjectives
Genocide of European Jews by Nazi Germany
War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, approximately
The_Holocaust
Word derivation rule in Proto-Indo-European
properties: Adjectives are formed using zero-ablaut ro-stems (i.e., word stems ending in *-rós), u-stems, or amphikinetic nt-stems. Adjectives are sometimes
Caland_system
Ancestor of the Indo-European languages
or associated adjectives were probably created from nouns through internal derivation. Such words could be used directly as adjectives, or they could
Proto-Indo-European_language
Class of words
adverbs from adjectives (French, for example, uses the suffix -ment), or else use the same form for both adjectives and adverbs, as in German and Dutch,
Adverb
Land formation common in northern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands
Pleistocene epoch. The term geest is a substantivisation of the Low German adjective güst, which means "dry and infertile". It is an Old Drift landscape
Geest
Currency of Germany from 1948 to 2002
Deutsche Mark (German: [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈmaʁk] ; 'German mark'), abbreviated "DM" or "D-Mark" ([ˈdeːˌmaʁk] ), was the official currency of West Germany from 1948 until
Deutsche_Mark
Concept of Freudian psychoanalysis
"afterwardsness" (German: Nachträglichkeit) appeared initially in Freud's writings in the 1890s in the commonsense form of the German adjective-adverb "afterwards"
Afterwardsness
Surname list
Grosser or Großer is the masculine nominative singular form of the German adjective "gross", meaning "big", "great", "large", "tall", and the like. It
Grosser
Key term in Martin Heidegger's early philosophy
"existentiell". The common German adjective "existenziell" is usually translated into English as "existential". However, Heidegger coined the German noun "Existenzial"
Existentiell
portal List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations List of adjectivals and demonyms
List of demonyms for U.S. states and territories
List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._states_and_territories
German noun meaning "people"
The German noun Volk (German pronunciation: [fɔlk]) translates to people, both uncountable in the sense of people as in a crowd, and countable (plural
Volk
Honorifics in the German language and culture
of polite possessive adjectives: Obsolete forms of honorific addresses: Many different honorific pronouns have been used in German over the centuries,
German_honorifics
Inflection in the Russian language
full forms of most adjectives, except possessive ones; it is also used for substantivated adjectives as учёный and for adjectival participles. After a
Russian_declension
eponymous adjective is an adjective which has been derived from the name of a person, real or fictional. Persons from whose name the adjectives have been
List of eponymous adjectives in English
List_of_eponymous_adjectives_in_English
English language during the Middle Ages
multisyllable adjectives also receive a final -e in these situations, but this occurs less regularly in later Middle English texts. Otherwise, adjectives have
Middle_English
Affix which is placed before the stem of a word
derivative substantives and adjectives, only two productive prefixes are generally addable to any substantive or adjective as of 1970: un-, which expresses
Prefix
Association of municipalities in Lower Saxony
Samtgemeinde (plural: Samtgemeinden) is a neologism consisting of the German adjectives gesamt (whole, entire, all, complete, total, aggregate, collective
Samtgemeinde
Category of words based on shared grammatical properties in a clause
classifiers. Many languages do not distinguish between adjectives and adverbs, or between adjectives and verbs (see stative verb). Because of such variation
Part_of_speech
denote the people or the inhabitants of these places. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms refer also to various other things, sometimes with and
List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names
List_of_adjectival_and_demonymic_forms_of_place_names
Racial slur against Black people
African-American English. The origin of the word lies with the Latin adjective niger ([ˈnɪɡɛr]), meaning "black". It was initially seen as a relatively
Nigger
Germanic language spoken in Luxembourg
As such, Luxembourgish is different from the German language also used in the Grand Duchy. The German language exists in a national standard variety
Luxembourgish
name for Jämtland where jamti may mean 'hard-working person'; cf. German adjective emsig 'hard-working'.) Ásbjörn (English: God Bear) Trjónn - (English:
Frösö_Runestone
related to the construction of German sentences. This section details the construction of verbal nouns and verbal adjectives from the main infinitive. The
German_verbs
Grammar of the Japanese language
activities) adjectival nouns (形容動詞, keiyō dōshi) (names vary, also called na-adjectives or "nominal adjectives") verbs (動詞, dōshi) adjectives (形容詞, keiyōshi)
Japanese_grammar
Surname list
surname. It was probably derived from the German adjective schön ('beautiful', 'nice') or from the Middle High German word schin ('shine','glow'). It was therefore
Šín
Dog breed
Old German herding dogs (German: altdeutsche Hütehunde), including old German sheep dogs or old German shepherd dogs (altdeutsche Schäferhunde) are a group
Old_German_herding_dogs
Structure of sentences in the German language
German sentence structure is the syntactical structure to which the German language adheres. The basic sentence in German can be seen following the subject–verb–object
German_sentence_structure
Words in German that substitute for a noun or noun phrase
German pronouns are German words that function as pronouns. As with pronouns in other languages, they are frequently employed as the subject or object
Pronouns_in_German
West Slavic language of eastern Germany
“paternal”, maćerny “mother’s”, “maternal”. Adjectives have two types of declension — soft (which includes adjectives whose stem ends in č, š, ž or soft n and
Upper_Sorbian_language
Variety of West Central German
as in Standard German, through the use of dative forms of personal pronouns and through certain inflections of articles and adjectives modifying nouns
Pennsylvania_Dutch_language
Name for a resident of a particular geographical area
Paul Dickson in a work from 1990. The word did not appear for nouns, adjectives, and verbs derived from geographical names in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Demonym
Spanish words of Germanic origin
Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse, Old Swedish, English, and finally,
List of Spanish words of Germanic origin
List_of_Spanish_words_of_Germanic_origin
Topics referred to by the same term
German-Pakistani or Pakistani-German (also unhyphenated) may refer to: As an adjective, anything relating to Germany–Pakistan relations Pakistanis in Germany
German-Pakistani
West Slavic language
include adjectives, adverbs, numbers, interrogative words, prepositions, conjunctions and interjections. Adverbs are primarily formed from adjectives by taking
Czech_language
Inflection of words according to number, gender, and/or case
sentence by way of an inflection. Declension may apply to nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, and determiners. It serves to indicate number (e.g. singular
Declension
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
Boy/Male
French
German.
Boy/Male
French Latin
German, or from Germany.
Boy/Male
Australian, French, Latin
From Germany
Girl/Female
French
German. From Germany.
Male
French
French form of Roman Latin Germanus, GERMAIN means "from Germany."
Male
English
 English name derived from Latin Hermanus, HERMAN means "army man." Compare with another form of Herman.
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : variant of Gorman 1.English : variant of Gorman 2.German : variant of German.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English, French, German, Latin
From Germany
Surname or Lastname
English (eastern counties)
English (eastern counties) : apparently a variant of German.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Teutonic
Warrior; Brotherly; From Germany; Brother
Surname or Lastname
English
English : ethnic name from Old French germain ‘German’ (Latin Germanus). This sometimes denoted an actual immigrant from Germany, but was also used to refer to a person who had trade or other connections with German-speaking lands. The Latin word Germanus is of obscure and disputed origin; the most plausible of the etymologies that have been proposed is that the people were originally known as the ‘spear-men’, with Germanic gÄ“r, gÄr ‘spear’ as the first element.English (of Norman origin) : from the Old French personal name Germain (see Germain).Americanized spelling of Spanish Germán or Hungarian Germán, cognates of 2.German : from the saint’s name German(us). See also Germann.Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : Russianized variant of Hermann.Greek : reduced form of Germanos, a Greek personal name, bestowed in honor of saints of the Eastern Church distinct from St. Germain: in particular, St. Germanos in the 8th century, liturgical poet and patriarch of Constantinople. The Greek surname can also denote someone associated with Germany or someone with blond hair.
Surname or Lastname
English, German, and Swiss German
English, German, and Swiss German : variant of German.German : variant of Gehrmann.
Male
Russian
(Герман) Russian form of Roman Latin Germanus, GERMAN means "from Germany."
Surname or Lastname
Slovenian
Slovenian : probably from a medieval form of the personal name Herman, from German Hermann.English : variant spelling of German.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of German.German : see Gierman.
Boy/Male
French
German.
Male
Italian
Italian form of Roman Latin Germanus, GERMANO means "from Germany."
Surname or Lastname
Irish
Irish : variant of Gorman 1.English : variant of Gorman 2.Altered spelling of German Gehrmann.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : variant of Bormann.English : variant of Bowerman.
Girl/Female
Australian, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese
From Germany
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
Boy/Male
Hebrew, Hindu, Indian
From Tamar
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
Created
Girl/Female
Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Sindhi
Truth
Boy/Male
Scottish
Crooked.
Female
English
English name derived from a Latin title of the Virgin Mary, MADONNA means "my lady."
Male
Egyptian
, an early Egyptian king.
Boy/Male
British, English
From the West Meadow
Biblical
the best prince
Girl/Female
Hindu
Enchantress, Charming
Boy/Male
Tamil
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
GERMAN ADJECTIVES
n.
A merman; the male of the mermaid.
n.
A social party at which the german is danced.
pl.
of Germen
pl.
of Gemma
pl.
of German
n.
The Permian period. See Chart of Geology.
n.
The modern dialects spoken in the north of Germany, taken collectively; modern Low German. See Low German, under German.
n.
See Germ.
a.
See Germane.
n.
A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism.
n.
A yeoman.
n.
A leman.
pl.
of Merman
n.
A native or one of the people of Germany.
n.
Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.
a.
Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest.
n.
The German language.
pl.
of Herma
n.
Of or pertaining to Germany.
pl.
of Germen