This video is the lesson for German Plural Nouns — The Five Patterns in the free A1 course — with the grammar written out, vocabulary and exercises.
Learn the main German plural endings — -e, -er, -en and -s — and how some nouns also add an umlaut (Buch wird Bücher, with ü). Worked examples like Hund wird Hunde and Tag wird Tage show each type in action.
Der Hund wird die Hunde.
Der Tag wird die Tage.
Das Buch wird die Bücher.
One Hunde many Hunde — but one Buch many Bücher Why the change Let's learn
German has main plural endings We add –e –er –en or –s
Some words also change their vowel Let's see each type
Type one adds e
Der Hund becomes die Hunde — the dogs Der Tag becomes die Tage — the
Just add e
Common
with
neutral nouns
Amlaut — the dots above vowels
becomes ä u becomes ü o becomes ö
Buch to Bücher — see the ü
This happens often
die
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