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Not if the word is "Verstorbenen", right? The extra -en makes it plural.
by blahedo 10y ago
Not if the word is "Verstorbenen", right? The extra -en makes it plural.
- wolfgke 10y ago> Not if the word is "Verstorbenen", right? The extra -en makes it plural. If we are in the nominative case this is correct. But "des Verstorbenen": singular, male, genitive "dem Verstorbenen": singular, male, dative "den Verstorbenen": either (singular, male, accusative) or (plural, dative) "die Verstorbenen" ("die" is always used in nominative plural): either (nominative, plural) or (accusative, plural) In other words: the extra "-n" can be a plural ending or a case ending. Know your declination table inside out and you can find out.
- schoen 10y agoIf people are confused about why the oblique cases are all marked on the noun, which is usually not true for accusative and dative singular, "adjectives used as nouns" have weak adjective inflections (for example "für den Angeklagten" 'for the accused', "mit dieser Bekannten" 'with this (female) friend'); my source for this rule and the examples is the Collins German Concise Dictionary 4th ed., pp. 148-9. This also seems to be the last point discussed in the 2nd paragraph of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantivierung#Allgemeines_2 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantivierung#Allgemeines_2 which cites the Duden, which I unfortunately don't have.