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German pronouns are German words that function as pronouns. As with pronouns in other languages, they are frequently employed as the subject or object of a clause, acting as substitutes for nouns or noun phrases , but are also used in relative clauses to relate the main clause to a subordinate one.
English: Interest rates of German banks from 1967 to 2003. The vertical scale shows the interest rate in percent and the horizontal scale shows years from 1967 to 2003. The vertical scale shows the interest rate in percent and the horizontal scale shows years from 1967 to 2003.
German articles and pronouns in the genitive and dative cases directly indicate the actions of owning and giving without needing additional words (indeed, this is their function), which can make German sentences appear confusing to English-speaking learners.
All German nouns are included in one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter.While the gender often does not directly influence the plural forms of nouns, [1] [2] there are exceptions, particularly when it comes to people and professions (e.g. Ärzte/Ärztinnen).
Proto-Germanic personal pronouns [1] First person Second person Third person Singular Dual Plural Singular Dual Plural Singular Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter Nominative *ek *ik 1 *wet *wit 1 *wīz *wiz 1 *þū *jut *jūz *iz *sī *it *īz *ijōz *ijō Accusative *mek *mik 1 *unk *uns *þek *þik 1 *inkw *izwiz *inǭ ...
Possessive determiners commonly have similar forms to personal pronouns. In addition, they have corresponding possessive pronouns, which are also phonetically similar. The following chart shows the English, German, [13] and French personal pronouns, possessive determiners and possessive pronouns.
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 role in the sentence: subject, object, etc. Declension allows speakers to mark a difference between subjects, direct objects, indirect objects and possessives by changing the form of the word—and/or its associated article—instead of ...
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 set of declined forms of the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Old High German.