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You’ll notice that I’ve placed various additions to the end of most of the words in the Vocabulary Expansion Sheet. There are two different things. Firstly, you’ll see a comma followed by a hyphen and a letter. For example: eine Salatgurke, -n a cucumber This is to show you how to make the word plural. With the word above, you add an ‘n’ to the end to make it plural. So, “Salatgurken” means “cucumbers”. Secondly, some of the words have either (n) or (m) after them. This is to show you if the word is masculine or neuter. Masculine words have a (m) after them and neuter words have a (n). Some of the words are obvious, so I’ve not clarified them. For example, if a word has “die” or “eine” in front of it, it must be feminine; if a word has “der” in front of it, it must be masculine; if a word has “das” in front of it, it must be neuter. The only fuzzy area would be if a word has “ein” in front of it; this could be masculine or neuter, therefore with these words, I’ve added the (n) or the (m). Finally, there’s the odd word that has another bracket before the plural section. For example: eine Drachenfrucht, (ü) -e a dragonfruit This means, to make this word plural, you not only have to add the “e” to the end, but you also have to put an umlaut over the “u”. So, it would become “Drachenfrüchte”.