Greetings and locating things: capital letters on German nouns | German

Starter quiz

Match the gender definitions.
- Grammatical gender
  
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  Way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter ✓
- Biological gender
  
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  Refers to physical gender e.g. male, female ✓
Identify the nouns.
- go
- cat ✓
- eat
- London ✓
- day ✓
Which words mean 'the' in German?
- der ✓
- da
- die ✓
- das ✓
Translate 'Mia ist hier' into English.
- 'Mia is here.' ✓
Match up the German with the English.
- das Fenster
  
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  (the) window ✓
- der Tisch
  
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  (the) table ✓
- die Flasche
  
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  (the) bottle ✓
Translate 'wo ist' into English.
- 'Where is?' ✓

Which word has a short [a] sound?
- fahren
- sagen
- Klasse ✓
Which two words have a long [a] sound?
- Gast
- Paar ✓
- Tag ✓
- Flasche
- kalt
What does every noun in German need?
- 'A capital letter' ✓
Put this sentence in the correct order.
- 1
  
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  Der
- 2
  
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  Tisch
- 3
  
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  ist
- 4
  
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  da
Translate this sentence into English: Wo ist das Fenster?
- 'Where is the window?' ✓
Translate this sentence into German: The class is here.
- 'Die Klasse ist hier.' ✓

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[a] can be short or long, but an 'e' at the end of a word is always very short, for example 'danke'.
All German nouns start with a capital letter.
German has three words for 'the': der (masculine), die (feminine) and das (neuter).
Wo ist ..?', meaning 'Where is ... ?' is followed by the definite article and noun for simple location questions.
Simple location questions can be answered using 'ist' (is) and 'hier' (here) or 'da' (there).

Only proper nouns have a capital letter.

In German, all nouns, regardless of where they are in a sentence, have a capital letter.