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What are nouns? / What is a noun?

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The nouns in English are the words that describe something, these nouns can accept a plural and an English genitive in English. However, it should be noted that in English the nouns have no gender. The accusative and dative as well conjugations are there as nominative in English. Thus accusative and dative are united in English to the “object Case“, which can only be recognized by the sentence position, within a sentence. Furthermore, the plural is the same in all cases.

Thus, there are only 2 other types of formation, the nominative singular, which you have to master.

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The plural in English

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The general formation of the plural:

As well as everything in English, the formation of the plural of a noun is not particularly difficult, as only one -s is appended at the end of the noun. An example for this:

game – games

 

Beware of spelling:

However, as usual, there are few exceptions to the spelling:

 

For a noun that ends in a sibilant:

For these nouns, -es is appended.

dress – dresses

 

For nouns ending in -y:

For these nouns, the -y is replaced by a -ies in the plural:

baby – babies

 

For nouns ending in -o:

For these nouns, the -y is replaced by a -ies in the plural:

hero – heroes

Attention! However, this is not the case with foreign words, which I’ll talk about later.

 

For nouns ending in -f or -fe:

In these nouns, the -f or the -fe, is exchanged to -ves in the plural:

life – lives

If you know these rules, they are similar to the ones you use when forming the -ed ends in verbs. Simple Past

 

How is the plural formed with foreign words?

In contrast to the previous one, the plural formation of foreign words is quite simple. Because these nouns are simply their original form of progression. That is, the original plural is adopted.

 

Are there any irregular nouns?

Unfortunately, as so often, yes. These nouns usually retain their singular form in the plural. An example for this:

one glas – two glas

 

How is the plural formed in compound words?

Here, the superordinate noun is “through”. That is, only the superordinate noun is in plural. The superordinate noun is always the decisive noun within the compound words. An example for this.

daughter- in law  —  daughters-in-law

 

Are there no superordinate noun?

Then the last noun is in the plural.

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The English genitive

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General formation:

Generally, there are two ways in English to form a genitive. On the one hand with ‘s in the end and on the other with of. One commonality of the genitive is that it expresses an affiliation. The singular expresses the affiliation to a person and the plural to several persons.

… father’s car.

 

Genitive ’s:

FORMATION OF THE GENITIVES:

Noun in Singular + ‘s

Similar to all the other “formations” of nouns, the genitive is not particularly difficult, since only an ” English genitive apostrophe” follows after the noun plus an -s.

The plural then become eliminated, as already mentioned, because it is identical to the other “plurals”.

 

GENITIVE ‘S USAGE:
  • Mainly in humans or animals
  • Time indication
  • Public Transactions
  • States

 

 

of-Genitive:

OF-GENITIV FORMATION:
Singular:

of + Article / pronouns + singular nouns

On the other hand, the s-Genitive with its English apostrophe, the formation of the-genitive is a little harder. This is because an article or a pronoun is still used for the formation. This is followed by of, followed by the / the respective pronoun / article and, finally, the noun follows in the singular.

 

Plural:

of + articles / pronouns + nouns in the plural

Likewise, the plural of the genitive is also formed, except that the noun is plural.

 

OF-GENITIVE USAGE:

The of-genitive finds its use especially in technical terms.

 

 

Double genitive / the negated genitive:

Formation:

The double genitive is a combination of the of-genitive and the s-genitive, so the formation amounts to the following. First, the genitive starts with an “of”, followed by the final genitive, which is a noun plus “-’s”.

 

Uses:

  • Persons and their relationships
  • after a, some, any or numeric words + Noun

 

s-Genitive without reference word:

Formation:

Just like the formation of English s-Genitive.

at the butcher’s [house]

 

Uses:

  • If an already mentioned noun should not be repeated
  • In shops and apartments, if the noun is self-evident
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After a while, I gave myself one last chance to learn English. Only this time I limited myself to the essential points.

That means for me verbs: the form – examples – signal words & the usage

This method enabled me to learn English faster than ever before.

 

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