What’s on the German Plurals poster
A 5-row table: Ending · Example · Tends to be.
There is no single plural -s. These five endings cover almost everything.
- -e — der Tisch → die Tische — many masculine
- -er — das Kind → die Kinder — short neuter
- -(e)n — die Frau → die Frauen — most feminine
- -s — das Auto → die Autos — loanwords
- no change — der Lehrer → die Lehrer — -er, -en, -el endings
Many plurals also add an umlaut: der Vater → die Väter. Every plural takes 'die' in the nominative, whatever its gender.
Questions about the German Plurals poster
- What’s on the German Plurals poster?
- A 5-row table: Ending · Example · Tends to be. There is no single plural -s. These five endings cover almost everything. -e — der Tisch → die Tische — many masculine; -er — das Kind → die Kinder — short neuter; -(e)n — die Frau → die Frauen — most feminine; -s — das Auto → die Autos — loanwords; no change — der Lehrer → die Lehrer — -er, -en, -el endings. Many plurals also add an umlaut: der Vater → die Väter. Every plural takes 'die' in the nominative, whatever its gender.
- Who is the German Plurals poster for?
- German Plurals belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning german can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the German Plurals poster?
- Learn the plural with the noun, like the gender. It is not reliably predictable. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so German Plurals belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with German Plurals?
- Forming Plurals, Adjective Endings and The Four Cases sit alongside German Plurals in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Forming PluralsAdjective EndingsThe Four Cases
- Is the German Plurals poster free to download and print?
- Yes. German Plurals downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the German Plurals poster print at?
- German Plurals is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of German Plurals loses nothing.Printing guide
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