Talk:Junge

What do you call a word like Junge, Bube, Elefant, Bär et cetera in English, all forms of which apart from the nominative singular end in (e)n? In Hungarian we call them weak nouns if it helps. Ferike333 18:16, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

And there's a third plural form written in editor view that does not appear on the page. Why? Ferike333 18:19, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

I didn't expect that condition to occur anywhere. Give me some time and I'll fix that. -- Prince Kassad 19:39, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

They are called schwache Deklination (weak declension) or schwache Substantive (weak nouns) in German as well. --Anatoli 20:20, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

In English they are called the weak declension, but it is understood only by German teachers and students. Probably at least 90% of the population doesn’t know what declension means, much less weak declension. —Stephen 12:18, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Thank you. Wheter people know it or not, that's its name, which should be used when explaining. And who wants to learn German needs to know a few grammatical expressions. (Nor do Hungarians know what főnévragozás (noun declension) means, by the way, however we have and use it.) Ferike333 20:57, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

True, it is easier to refer to a grammatical phenomenon by some name, rather than using long descriptions. Good textbooks use proper terms. Anatoli 23:34, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

"later fully nominalised with the invariable nominative ein Junge" what does 'invariable nominative' mean? I can't find anything like it anyway. Oh, is it meant that it just kept the nominative form always regardless of case? (In which case such it be specified that it retained the *strong* nominative case of the adjective (Rather than ein Junger)? - (an overview of some related issues here https://www.dartmouth.edu/~deutsch/Grammatik/AdjectivalNouns/AdjectivalNouns.html?fbclid=IwAR35ca1HHC9dYmsE0ApiY0p3LXW9Lxk-BnNET3djV_HrCPZKjI8rEjeVDKE ) ) 2001:770:10:300:0:0:86E2:510C 13:39, 11 September 2020 (UTC)