German adjective endings – an infographic

A while ago I wrote a blog post about using crib sheets When is cheating not cheating? – not the ones you would use in an exam, but sheets with useful information for German learners.

I thought about it recently when some students of mine were doing some exercises about prepositions and also about adjective endings in all the cases. What made it more complicated, sometimes they needed the definite articles, sometimes the indefinite articles and other times no articles. Work we had previously done in a book had nice tables for each of those. We would have liked to see them all in one place.

So, this blog post will have just that – an infographic with all the cases, adjective endings and articles on one sheet.

I don’t believe in students learning these grids by heart. I want students to be able to make their own sentences, and if that means having a peek at an information sheet, do it!

Go ahead, use it and if you found it useful, tell me if there are other infographics you’d like me to attempt.

But first, here are the three tables on their own:

	masculine	feminie	neuter	plural
nom.	der nette Mann	die nette Frau	das nette Kind	die netten Kinder
acc.	den netten Mann	die nette Frau	das nette Kind	die netten Kinder
dat.	dem netten Mann	der netten Frau	dem netten Kind	den netten Kindern
gen.	des netten Mannes	der netten Frau	des netten Kindes	der netten Kinder

	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nom.	ein netter Mann	eine nette Frau	ein nettes Kind	meine netten Kinder
acc.	einen netten Mann	eine nette Frau	ein nettes Kind	meine netten Kinder
dat.	einem netten Mann	einer netten Frau	einem netten Kind	meinen netten Kindern
gen.	eines netten Mannes	einer netten Frau	eines netten Kindes	meiner netten Kinder

	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nom.	deutscher Wein	deutsche Bratwurst	deutsches Bier	deutsche Süßigkeiten
acc.	deutschen Wein	deutsche Bratwurst	deutsches Bier	deutsche Süßigkeiten
dat.	deutschem Wein	deutscher Bratwurst	deutschem Bier	deutschen Süßigkeiten
gen.	deutschen Weines	deutscher Bratwurst	deutschen Bieres	deutschen Süßigkeiten

And now a little prettier ☺

You can also download it as a PDF from here

And don’t forget, adjectives AFTER a noun don’t change and don’t have any extra endings!

PS. If you need more help with the four cases in German, check out my online course: German grammar – the four cases. It might just be what you need, so go on, have a look.