Re: Perfect mood

On Dec 2, 7:08 pm, LEE Sau Dan <dan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter> In German, nouns are masculine, feminine, or neuter
Peter> consistently, whether they are singular or plural.

Really? How is gendered distinguished for plural nouns in German?
Which pronouns would you use for them? Gender-segregated?
Which article do you use for them? Gender-distinguished?
What adjective endings do you use for them? Can you tell the gender
apart from these endings?

e.g. given that a plural noun in nominative case is "die Angeklagten",
do you know if this refers to a group of men, a group of women, or a
group of mixed men and women? What would be the accusative, dative
and genetive forms of it? Do you need to know the gender to derive
these forms? What if you want to insert the adjective "unschuldig"
into it? What adjective endings to use? You need to know the gender
to make that decision? Can you tell solely from this form what the
singular may be? "Der Angeklagte"? "Die Angeklagte"? "Das
Angeklagte"?

So in the LSD dialect of German, nouns lose their gender entirely when
pluralized?

I suppose that could make a Chinese-speaker more comfortable.
.

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