Formalle + Pluralnomen (Nominativ/Akkusativ), mit allen + Nomen (Dativ)
Meaning and usage
alle means all and is used with plural nouns. It follows the der-word pattern, the same endings you know from diese: alle Kinder, alle Fragen, alle Fenster. In the dative it takes -en, like diesen: mit allen Kindern, unter allen Umständen. An adjective after alle usually ends in -en in the nominative and accusative: alle guten Freunde.
A common mistake is dropping the dative ending: mit alle Kindern instead of mit allen Kindern. With a plural noun, alle copies the der-word endings: alle, allen, aller.
Examples 6
Es ist kalt. Warum sind alle Fenster auf?
It's cold. Why are all the windows open?
Hast du vor alle Bäume hier zu fällen?
Are you going to cut down all the trees here?
Er beantwortete innerhalb von zehn Minuten alle Fragen.
He answered all the questions in ten minutes.
Ich muss diese Prüfung unter allen Umständen bestehen.
I must pass this exam, no matter what.
Du scheinst auf allen diesen Fotos zu sein.
You seem to be in all these pictures.
Ich sah ihn mit ihnen allen Karten spielen.
I saw him playing cards with all of them.
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Ich habe Fragen schon beantwortet.
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Correct answer: alle
Fragen is the direct object in the accusative plural, so alle takes the der-word plural ending -e: alle Fragen.
- aller is a genitive or dative form and does not fit before a plural accusative noun.
- allen is the dative plural form, which you would need after a dative preposition like mit, not here.
- allem is dative singular and cannot go with the plural Fragen.
In this topic: der-words and ein-words
- dieser, diese, dieses this, these: dieser takes the endings of der
- jeder, jede, jedes every, each: jeder, jede, jedes
- alle Kinder, mit allen Kindern all: alle follows the der-word pattern
- so ein, solche such a, such, people or things like that
- mit meinem Bruder, mit einer Freundin ein-words in the dative: meinem, einer
- unser, euer → eure euer drops its second e when an ending is added
- Ich habe einen. Ich habe keins. saying one or none without repeating the noun
- Das ist meins. saying mine, yours, his with no noun
Example sentences from Tatoeba, used under CC BY 2.0 FR. See sources.