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This mini-course helps you see the principles & patterns that underline German grammar (including noun plurals) so that you can learn efficiently & effectively.

In this ‘German for beginners’ video, you’ll discover that German noun PLURALS are actually governed by some handy-dandy rules! It’s time to take the random out of German noun plurals and learn time-saving principles & patterns instead.

I’ll introduce you to a special plurals hierarchy flowchart that I created in order to take the mystery and frustration out of German noun plurals. Discover the rhyme & reason behind noun plurals and learn them better and faster.

The power of being an adult learner of German is that you can ANALYZE the German language, ANALYZE specifically the grammar -- which is where any adult should start!

In this video, you’ll learn 5 RULES for German noun plurals. Of course, exceptions exist (but even those can typically be neatly categorized), but if you can learn principles & patterns that work like a charm the majority of the time … why wouldn’t you do that?!

You’ll learn that which noun plural you need is impacted by one of these elements:

1. how the noun is spelled
2. how the nouns is pronounced
3. how many syllables the noun has
4. the gender of the noun

Did you read that last point? Yup. That’s right. Here is yet another reason why learning noun GENDER (previous video) is so crucial -- it might impact the plural form needed!

Get ready to learn just exactly how many plurals options there are anyway, plus how to accurately pick which one you need and when! Let’s go!

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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: around the 3 minute mark, I give 2 sets of examples of common nouns that take the 'no change' plural, but several of nouns I chose to highlight were poor examples because *after* 'getting off the train' at 'train stop #1' (with my system that you'll learn in this video), these nouns are further shunted to short, easy exception lists (but I don't specify this in the video).

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Firstly, 'Vater', 'Mutter', 'Bruder', and 'Boden' do indeed take the no-change plural ending, as I say --BUT they also belong on a list of 24 nouns that additionally take an umlaut in the plural (Väter, Mütter, Brüder, Böden).

Finally, all feminine nouns ending with -el and -er (there are none that end with -en) ALSO get off the train at train stop #1 and take the 'no change' ending as the first step ... but, then you learn (just not in this video!) that this particular body of nouns also has to add an 'n' (Gabel becomes Gabeln, Schüssel becomes Schüsseln).

So, sorry! My apologies for not using clear-cut examples and/or not clarifying the essential nuances of the examples I did use. But hopefully it all makes sense to you now. :-)

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