German language

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/german-language

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the language family?West Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family
2. What is the number of native speakers?Approximately 100 million
3. What are the four grammatical cases in German?German has four cases: nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive. They change how nouns, pronouns, and adjectives are written. This helps show each word’s role in a sentence.
4. How many genders are there in German?German has three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Each noun belongs to one of these genders, which affects the words that go with it.

West Germanic Languages: A subgroup of the Germanic languages, including English, Dutch, Frisian, and German.
Grammatical Case: A system of word endings that indicates a noun's grammatical function in a sentence.
Komposita: German term for compound words, formed by joining two or more words together.
Standardization: The process of establishing a common form of a language used in formal contexts.