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Noun \seqsplit{Groups} & - Male persons and Male Animals \{\{nl\}\} - days of the week\{\{nl\}\} - months of the year seasons \{\{nl\}\} - most weather elements \{\{nl\}\} - car makes \{\{nl\}\} - monetary units \{\{nl\}\} - non-German river names \{\{nl\}\} - rocks and minerals \{\{nl\}\} - mountains and mountain ranges \{\{nl\}\} - alcoholic and \seqsplit{plant-based} drinks & - Female persons and Female animals \{\{nl\}\} –Rivers within Germany, Austria, Switzerland \{\{nl\}\} – Airplanes, motorcycles, and ships \{\{nl\}\} – Numbers used as nouns \{\{nl\}\} – Trees, fruits, and flowers \{\{nl\}\} – Nouns formed from measurement or size adjectives & – Young persons and baby animals \{\{nl\}\} – metals and chemical elements \{\{nl\}\} – names of continents, cities, provinces, and most countries \{\{nl\}\} – scientific units \& \seqsplit{measurements} \{\{nl\}\} – letters of the alphabet and music notes \{\{nl\}\} – hotels, cafes, restaurants, and movie theaters \{\{nl\}\} – other parts of speech used as nouns (gerunds, colors, languages, English -ing forms) \tn 
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Noun Forms & -ant, -ast, -ich, -ig, -ismus, -ling, -or, -us & -a, -anz, -enz, -ei, -ie, -heit, -keit, -ik, -sion, -tion, -sis, -t{\"a}t, -ung, -ur, schaft & -chen, -lein, -icht, -il, -it, -ma, -ment, -tel, -tum, -um \tn 
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{\bf{Akkusative}} \{\{nl\}\} {\emph{(Wohin/Where to?, motion)}} & {\bf{Wechsel}} \{\{nl\}\} {\emph{(Changing/depends)}} & {\bf{Dativ}}  \{\{nl\}\} {\emph{(Wo/Where, no motion)}} \tn 
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