ACONTRASTIVE STUDY OF GRAMMATICAL CATEGORIES OF NOUN IN ENGLISH AND GERMAN
Keywords:
gender, noun, category, number, similarities, differencesAbstract
English and German as the members of the Indo-European trunk of languages undoubtedly share certain characteristics, common for all members of this family of languages but as two structurally different languages, they also show significant differences, but also similarities in regard to the grammatical category of noun in English and German.
The article is based on typical English and German grammar books, written by prominent authors, which provide an abundance of data examined through the contrastive method. The results indicate that noun in both languages show discrepancy which concern several aspects of grammatical categories. Some of these differences contain the ways of forming the plural number and their usage with articles and numerals. Gender, grammatical category exists in the German language. There is a gender in pronouns of English ( her, his, hers, he), but not for all nouns. Despite differences, there are also similarities that concern mainly the ways of forming the plural number, but also the group of nouns used only in the singular and those used only in the plural.
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