Nouns and Cases

German is the only world language that requires the capitalization of all nouns. But once you get past that easy rule, the German capitalization rules can be a bit more tricky. Here's a lesson to help you write better German.

Tips on how to form the sentence structure when using the accusative and dative cases.

A survey of the four German cases and their forms in articles, nouns, and prepositions.

Der, die, or das? It's not always easy to tell the gender of German nouns. Here's some help.

A closer look at some reliable ways to predict the gender of some German nouns.

There is a class of masculine German nouns that do things most German nouns don't do. In certain grammatical situations these nouns have endings that most other nouns don't have. Learn more in this lesson on German nouns with irregular endings.

A lesson on German compound words.

Writing German Dates.

A lesson on adjectives as nouns.

German Cases chart with printable version. (pdf)

German Cases Chart of indefinite articles with pdf printable version.