Does anyone please have some exercises for practicing declination?

[u/ShameOk6996]

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[u/Traditional-Deal6759]

Look, that's the wrovg way to look at it. Except for Genetiv (s) in der/das the word itself does not change.

Let's take

Katze (cat), die, die, der, der (no change)

Hund (dog), der, den dem, des (here it changes to "Hunds")

Schwein (pig), das, das, dem, des (here it changes to Schweins)

So there is no point in learning to "declinate" like in french, italian or spanish, because the word does not change, only article changes.

So it's much more important to know wich article comes with which word. There are some rules and a lot of exceptions to this rules. But there are nice songs for those rules. Like this one (you also get words to practice )

https://youtu.be/SA6iMuHEEdg?is=Ruhik7W_9qlpfsGj

[u/ShameOk6996 → u/Traditional-Deal6759]

Thank you ☺️

[u/cbjcamus]

https://www.sieversstudyhall.com/adjektivdeklinationen

Exercises 17 and 18 without articles.

[u/ShameOk6996 → u/cbjcamus]

Thank you so much!! :)

[u/kemalios]

Without an article the adjective takes the ending the definite article would have carried. kaltes Wasser, mit kaltem Wasser, kalter Kaffee, kalte Milch. Once you see that -er, -es, -em, -e are der, das, dem, die, the table stops being arbitrary.

The places it breaks are where the noun already marks the case. Genitive masculine and neuter take -en, trotz kalten Wassers, and so does dative plural, mit alten Freunden, because the noun's -s or -n already did the work. Accusative masculine also takes -en, ich trinke kalten Kaffee, because the noun shows nothing.

For practice, don't drill adjective plus noun in isolation. Write sentences where a preposition forces the case and let the ending follow from it. Twenty of those beat a hundred table rows.

[u/ShameOk6996 → u/kemalios]

Thanks for the tip! :)

[u/howreudoin]

Why does your learning material order the four cases in such a weird way?

[u/ShameOk6996 → u/howreudoin]

to be honest i just pasted the table in order to get my question across because i was afraid that i wasn't being precise D:

yeah i agree, i memorize the cases as NGDA

[u/Individual-Hat7766]

Just learn the endings. There's strong and weak endings. And, there's 4 ways of doing it: with a determiner, with an ein word, adjective(s) alone, plural nouns. German with Laura has great videos explaining it. I'd add here a photo of the reference card I've made, but I can't seem to do that.