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Preliminary Recommendations

Language-specific features

In German, there are some nouns with adjectival inflection (especially nominalised adjectives). These nouns distinguish strong, weak and mixed inflection, depending on the preceding determiner (cf. adjective inflections).

AttributeValue Ge. example Ge. tag
Inflection strong (nichts) Gutes NN:Neut.Nom.Sg.St
weak (der) Beamte NN:Masc.Nom.Sg.Sw
mixed (ein) Beamter NN:Masc.Nom.Sg.Mix