In German we have been learning how to use the German/English dictionaries to discover whether the objects we look up are ‘der’, ‘die’ or ‘das’ words.

This is a major difference between our language and the German language – there are THREE ways of saying ‘the’ in German!

We now know that if we see the letter ‘m’ after a noun in the dictionary, it’s a DER word. The letter ‘f’ means it’s a DIE word and the letter ‘n’ means it’s a DAS word.

Here are some photos of Frau Hook’s Year 5s demonstrating their dictionary skills.