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Mar 12, 2016 at 14:34	comment	added	Hubert Schölnast		Crissov: Your example has nothing to do with titles. It is about proper names (Eigennamen). »Zum Goldenen Schwan« is the name of an inn, and because it is a proper name, you have to write it capitalized even in normal sentences, and even if you don't use the hole name: »Ich werde heute im Goldenen Schwan essen.« The word »Goldenen« in fact is an adjective, but it is used as part of a name, and names are treated as nouns and therefore capitalized.
Mar 12, 2016 at 12:49	comment	added	Crissov		@Vim There are various rules for title case in English. Even in German, there is (or at least used to be) a rule that allowed – or even required, I don’t remember – to capitalize adjectives in non-sentence titles that can be considered proper names, e.g. a restaurant may be called “Zum Goldenen Schwan”.
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Mar 12, 2016 at 8:10	comment	added	Vim		Thanks for your answer. It's really detailed. Incidentally, as far as I know I think the capitalisation rule of English titles is to capitalise every word but articles and small (by which I mean no more than five or six letters) prepositions and conjunctions, except when they are the first words.
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