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Meet die Ecke

See how the article changes from case to case, then try the exercises.

All 8 meanings

  1. corner, edge
  2. a roughly triangular or quadrangular piece of something
  3. (short for Hausecke, Straßenecke) corner of a house / of two streets
  4. (chiefly colloquial) region, area, neighbourhood
  5. (colloquial) bit, tad
  6. (graph theory) vertex, node

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For die Ecke, use the coloured columns: feminine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

Plural die Ecken

Examples

  1. 1
    Die kleine Ecke ist dunkel.The small corner is dark.Nominative · subjectPractise „klein“ →
  2. 2
    Ich kenne die gute Ecke.I know the good corner.Accusative · kennenPractise „gut“ →
  3. 3
    Wir sitzen neben der schönen Ecke.We are sitting next to the beautiful corner.Dative · nebenPractise „schön“ →
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