Re: Perfect mood

"Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@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"?

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

In which dialect of German are plural nouns grammatically for gender?
Can you show me some examples?


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