@ElfLord It's a table that shows the correct form of "the" in German, depending on the grammatical gender (columns, male/female/neutral/plural) and the grammatical cases (rows).

@elomatreb haha that's even funnier

@ElfLord @elomatreb I *think* it's a declension chart -- masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural across the top; cases down the side (genitive, dative accusative, nominative?) And think it's the declension of the word for "the".

(I don't know German, but I did take Latin...)

@varx @ElfLord Correct. For some reason the order of the cases is a little off though, normally the order is nominative, genitive, dativ, accusative

@elomatreb @varx Y'all are smart.

@Ronflaix You wouldn't generally need that, if you're a native speaker you have to know these anyway.

You can usually just construct a sentence with the correct case/words and see what sounds natural, I don't think I ever learned them by heart actively

@elomatreb well, I'm French and learnt German in school. I never could remember correctly the declinations right and the rules around adding the suffixes to adjective so... ^^'

@Ronflaix I wouldn't want to have to learn German as a second language, I don't think I could actually remember the rules for adjectives without just relying on what feels right

@wictory Anarchy, but only with correct grammar

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Also: on reflection, my teacher had the patience of a saint.