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All german nouns are either masculine, feminine or neuter and, just as in english, they can be either singular or plural. Harraps new german grammar by johnson and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The first, nominative case, you learned in lesson 1. It provides easily accessible information in an attractively presented layout, with new german spellings included throughout. Wenn ich direktor dieser schule ware, wurde ich m jeder pause getranke. I noticed that we use jeden for jeden tag, jeden monat and jeden dienstag but not for woche i.
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