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When do I use ‘erste’ and when do I use ‘ersten’? Is it a gender thing, or something else? Do they have different connotations?
When do I use ‘erste’ and when do I use ‘ersten’? Is it a gender thing, or something else? Do they have different connotations?
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It's related to some German gramatic rules such as:
1. Singular or plural
2. Which grammatic case? Nominativ, Akkusativ, genetiv, dativ
3. Is the word masculine or feminine or even neutral
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/erster#Declension
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