Adjektivendungen
This is genuinely the first A2-level grammar in the course - a small step up in complexity from everything before it. Take it slowly, and remember there's always a safe fallback if you're unsure.
Whenever an adjective follows a form of sein rather than sitting directly in front of a noun, it never changes shape - this is the lowest-risk way to describe things:
Die Wohnung ist groß. (no ending, always safe)
Der Tag ist schön.
If you're ever unsure how to end an adjective, restructure your sentence this way instead of guessing in front of the noun.
After der/die/das, the adjective ending is almost always -e - except masculine accusative, which takes -en, echoing der→den from Lesson 7:
der schöne Tag (nominative)
den schönen Tag (accusative - masculine only)
die schöne Wohnung (feminine, either case)
Full table including ein/eine: Reference - Adjective Endings.
| groß | big | klein | small |
| teuer | expensive | billig | cheap |
These are directly useful back in the apartment-hunting context from Lesson 8: eine teure Wohnung (an expensive apartment), ein kleines Zimmer (a small room).
1. "The apartment is big." (predicate, safe form) - Die Wohnung ist ______.
2. "the beautiful day" (nominative, masculine) - der schön______ Tag.
3. "the beautiful day" (accusative, masculine) - den schön______ Tag.
4. Does an adjective after "ist" need an ending?
5. What's the German word for "expensive"?
Cross-checked against the Goethe-Institut A1 practice materials.
Adjective endings are one of the trickier A2 points - ask your teaching agent to check any sentence you're unsure about.