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Why do we have to make “peinlich” start with a capital letter and also end with -s in this sentence?
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I just watched a youtube video. At 0:27, he says:
So, hast du schon irgendwas sehr Peinliches gemacht, wo du.....
My question is: why do we have to start "peinlich" with a capital letter? It is an adjective here. Also, why it ends with -s? Is it because of adjective ending?
adjectives nouns
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I just watched a youtube video. At 0:27, he says:
So, hast du schon irgendwas sehr Peinliches gemacht, wo du.....
My question is: why do we have to start "peinlich" with a capital letter? It is an adjective here. Also, why it ends with -s? Is it because of adjective ending?
adjectives nouns
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I just watched a youtube video. At 0:27, he says:
So, hast du schon irgendwas sehr Peinliches gemacht, wo du.....
My question is: why do we have to start "peinlich" with a capital letter? It is an adjective here. Also, why it ends with -s? Is it because of adjective ending?
adjectives nouns
I just watched a youtube video. At 0:27, he says:
So, hast du schon irgendwas sehr Peinliches gemacht, wo du.....
My question is: why do we have to start "peinlich" with a capital letter? It is an adjective here. Also, why it ends with -s? Is it because of adjective ending?
adjectives nouns
adjectives nouns
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What you see here is what is called Substantivierung - An adjective is elevated to a substantive -
das Peinliche
("the embarrassing") is used as a substantive in the sentence (after all, it is the object of the sentence) and thus has to be upper-cased.
The -s suffix is used in your example because of the "etwas" which enforces mixed declension.
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What you see here is what is called Substantivierung - An adjective is elevated to a substantive -
das Peinliche
("the embarrassing") is used as a substantive in the sentence (after all, it is the object of the sentence) and thus has to be upper-cased.
The -s suffix is used in your example because of the "etwas" which enforces mixed declension.
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What you see here is what is called Substantivierung - An adjective is elevated to a substantive -
das Peinliche
("the embarrassing") is used as a substantive in the sentence (after all, it is the object of the sentence) and thus has to be upper-cased.
The -s suffix is used in your example because of the "etwas" which enforces mixed declension.
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What you see here is what is called Substantivierung - An adjective is elevated to a substantive -
das Peinliche
("the embarrassing") is used as a substantive in the sentence (after all, it is the object of the sentence) and thus has to be upper-cased.
The -s suffix is used in your example because of the "etwas" which enforces mixed declension.
What you see here is what is called Substantivierung - An adjective is elevated to a substantive -
das Peinliche
("the embarrassing") is used as a substantive in the sentence (after all, it is the object of the sentence) and thus has to be upper-cased.
The -s suffix is used in your example because of the "etwas" which enforces mixed declension.
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