New answers tagged nominalization
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Like s6robat said, this is "Substantivierung".
When you want to refer to something only by one of its properties, you can use that.
A: Was willst du zum Geburtstag haben?
B: Nur etwas Kleines.
But the same goes for nichts, viel, wenig:
A: Was sagt man so über ihn?
B: Nichts Gutes? / Viel Gutes? / Wenig Gutes?
Like deve pointed out in a ...
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First off, the -es ending of an adjective is the indefinite neuter nominative declination, e.g. ein schönes Wochenende, ein rotes Fahrrad, …
There are two more occasions where the -es ending is added to an adjective:
1) The adjective is used as a noun (nominalised/substantiviert) and in the nominative case. Adjectives used as nouns always have the neuter ...
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It's just the usual neuter form of the adjective after an indefinite article, the same as in "ein trauriges Kind". ("etwas" is neuter.)
Sorry, this was incorrect: it's the "no article" form, not the "indefinite article" form. The difference is only visible in the dative case ("einem traurigen" vs. "etwas traurigem").
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