The most difficult in German grammar is the declination. Therefore we have a little repetition at this point of time. The declination will follow you wherever you go with German, it is found with nouns, all pronouns (personal, interrogative, demonstrative, possessive etc.), articles and adjectives. Let's admit that's quite a lot, considering the declination doesn't really always look the same, and there are always masculine, feminine and neutral words. If it's any comfort to you - other languages have declinations too and some are much more complicated (Russian with six declinations or Finnish with 15 declinations for instance).

In Chapter 9 - declination in German we have established the different types of declinations with groups. To know them will bring you much further, therefore here another set of examples. To know the declination of a noun you have to learn the plural form of the noun. Let's have a look at some examples.

Let's look at some examples

der Schuh => die Schuhe   shoe => shoes plural with e, no change of vowel => group (a)   die Kartoffel => die Kartoffeln   potatoe => potatoes plural with n, no change of vowel => group (b)   das Kind => die Kinder   child => children plural with er, no change of vowel => group (c)   der Brauch => die Bräuche custom => customs plural with e, change of vowel => group (d)   die Sau => die Säue   sow => sows plural with e, change of vowel => group (e)   das Buch => die Bücher   book => books plural with er, change of vowel => group (f)   das Kanu => die Kanus canoe => canoes plural with s, no change of vowel => group (g) - only neutral nouns   der Affe => die Affen monkey => monkeys plural with en, no change of vowel => group (h) - only masculine nouns   der Becher => die Becher cup => cups plural = singular => group (i) - only masculine nouns