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There are two inflection groups for geographical names: names that take an article (die Schweiz, der Rhein), and names without article (Deutschland, Wien). See Article with proper names.
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Singular |
| Nominative |
Wien |
| Accusative |
Wien |
| Dative |
Wien |
| Genitive |
Wiens |
All geographical names of this class
Features:
- Apostrophe in the genitive:
In names ending in s, ß, x or z the s in the genetive is substituted by an apostrophe. This form is very rare.
Florenz’ Innenstadt, Paris’ Metro
More frequent are the paraphrases with von or the corresponding adjective:
die Innenstadt von Florenz, die Pariser Metro
- Gender = neuter
All geographical names that usually do not take an article are neuter. This can be seen, for example, when they are accompanied by an adjective:
das französischsprachige Belgien, das moderne Zürich, das historische Rom, das menschenleere Alaska;
das geheimnisvolle Bali mit seinen Reisterrassen
Europa, es hat in seiner Geschichte viele Kriege gesehen.
- Genitive without s when used with a determiner
When proper names that usually do not take an article are used with an article or another determiner, the s of the gentitive form is often dropped:
die Geschichte des modernen Europas or des modernen Europa
die Reisterassen des geheimnisvollen Balis or des geheimnisvollen Bali
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