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Nomen – Questions on the grammar and usage of nouns IN GENERAL. Do not use this for questions on the meaning, etymology, translation or similar of specific nouns.
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Warum wird in diesem Satz der männliche Artikel für ein weibliches Nomen verwendet („der Ide...
Nein, Idee ist ein Femininum. Aber auch im Femininum kommt die Artikelform der vor, und zwar im Genitiv und im Dativ Singular:
Die Ursprünge der Idee (Gen. Sg.)/der Ideen (Gen. Pl.) sind nicht meh …
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"Braune Augen" to substantive or adjective
You can then use this adjective as a noun:
Der Braunäugige lächelte.
It’s a bit unusual to define someone by their eye colour, though. … As you can see, unstressed e is sometimes dropped from the noun, and the suffix may cause umlaut, though not always. …
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Accusative plural noun endings
Yes: In plural, the nominative, genitive and accusative forms of nouns are always identical. Only the dative form is (often) different.
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Traditional grammar on “noun centered” phrases
Indeed such constructions have been studied by grammarians since antiquity, and they are generally known as absolute constructions (absolute in the sense of ‘independent of other things’). The most we …
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When, if at all, should I add an e to the end of a noun in the dative case?
The -e dative ending is heavily obsolescent. It is almost no longer used in living language.
However, as is often the case (different examples), some phrases that were coined when the old -e ending w …
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Genitive of masculine plural indefinite nouns: -n ending
It doesn’t; it’s an error in your source. Canoonet, e.g., correctly has Männer.
Regarding your addition of wegen Männern: The problem here is in your assumption that “wegen is a preposition that al …