Mein Ideal (singular subject) vs Meine Ideale (plural subject) Thus you see, you have to determine the gender or plurality of the subject word in first place (which isn't actually following regular rules in German, and you just need to memorize the irregularities) to decide, if you use mein or meine for each particular case.
The ending "-chen" indicates that "Liebchen" is a diminutive. All diminutives are grammatically neuter in German, so it must be "mein Liebchen" (using the neuter form "mein") no matter whether it's said to a man or to a woman ("mein" is masculine or neuter, "meine" is feminine).
- Mein 2) Meine I selected Mein which I found to be incorrect. In the discussion thread somebody who claimed to be a native speaker mentioned that if some adjectives are used directly before the noun, then it should be 'Meine'. But here no adjective is used before the noun, Hemden, but still 'Meine' is correct. I don't understand why.
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I learned that a pronoun should take an ending in accordance with its gender, case, numerus, etc. whenever it refers to some noun in particular — ‘Das Auto ist meins’ for example. So in the follow...
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Mein I saw that meme on Imgur and wondered about the usage of Meine and Mein, which lead me to this answer. From what I can tell from that answer, mein is for singular male, and meine is for everything else. The meme is using two forms of mein, so I was wondering if it was accurate? If it is accurate how so; since there's only one cat in the image?