Declension German "Pizza" - All cases of the noun, plural, article (2024)

FAQs

What is the article of pizza in German? ›

In German, common as well as proper nouns are capitalized. Pizza is a feminine noun, so ''the pizza'' is translated as die Pizza. Here is an example of the word used in a sentence: Pizza stammt ursprünglich aus Italien.

Forming plurals

If a noun is plural, you need to use the article die . To make a German noun plural, you can't simply add s like in English. Plurals in German have different endings depending on the noun. Masculine and neuter nouns often add an -e and feminine nouns often add an -n .

Form the plural of many masculine and neuter nouns by adding “-e” to the end of the word. Neuter nouns that end in “-er”, “-el”, “-en”, “-chen” and “-lein” in the singular usually don't have special plural endings. For feminine nouns, you mostly form the plural by adding either “-n”, “-en”, or “-nen”.

To make a grammatically correct sentence, you would typically use "a" or "an" before a singular noun like "pizza." The choice between "a" and "an" depends on the sound of the word that follows. - Use "a" before words that start with a consonant sound: "a pizza."

The noun pizza can be countable or uncountable. In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will be pizzas. However, in more specific contexts, the plural form can also be pizze (rare) e.g. in reference to various types of pizze or a collection of pizze.

'Pizza' is a noun that can be countable as well as non-countable. In the sentence ' je voudrais une pizza ', he isn't referring to 'some' pizza , he is referring to ' a (one) pizza ', but not specifying a particular pizza.

If the noun ends in -er, -en, -ig, -ling, -us, -mus, -or, chances are it's masculine. If the noun ends in -in, -ion, -ung, -heit, -keit, -schaft, -ei, -ur, -ik, -tät, -anz, -enz, -ie, it's feminine.

Fortunately, whenever we're dealing with a plural noun, we no longer have to worry about gender. Regardless how you say 'the' for the singular noun, 'the' just becomes die for all the plural versions (die Hunde, die Katzen, die Pferde).

Do German nouns always need an article? ›

How To Understand German Definite Articles: Der, Die, Das. As said before, in the German language, every noun has a gender – either masculine (männlich), feminine (weiblich), or neuter (sächlich). For masculine nouns, the article “der” is used; for feminine nouns – “die”; and “das” – for neutral nouns.

The indefinite articles a and an are used to modify singular nouns. When using a plural noun, these two articles are unnecessary. Plural nouns can take either a definite article or no article at all. The definite article is the word the.

The gender of 'Junge' in German is masculine: der Junge (the boy). Its plural is 'die Jungen' (the boys).

German plurals are formed by adding -n/-en, -e, -r/-er, -s. Some nouns are the same in their singular and plural forms e.g. die Löffel whilst others are mostly used in the singular e.g. die Milch or plural form e.g. die Eltern.

Der, die, das and noun gender

They can either be masculine, feminine or neuter. And definite articles in German have to match the gender of the noun, such as der Mann (the man – masculine), die Frau (the woman – feminine) and das Kind (the child – neuter).

It's 'der Salat' (and not 'das Salat' or 'die Salat') because 'Salat' is a masculine noun in German. And 'der' is a masculine version of the word 'the'.