German Nouns

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German nouns are capitalized. Very disappointed to see nouns in the vocabulary list starting with small letters. Very confusing and just plain wrong!

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Thanks for reporting this, we will look into changing it.

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There’s a difficulty with this as some words can be nouns or verbs…schwimmen (verb, to swim), das Schwimmen (noun, the swimming). Probably some mixing of other word types with nouns as well that I’m not thinking of good examples, but it happens all the time. Perhaps what would be nice at the very least is if I click on what is clearly a noun in the content, that it brings up the word with the same capitalization. My memory is fuzzy but I kind of think version 4 did this??

As for the vocabulary list, perhaps both could be shown…at least if the LingQ understands the word to be both noun and verb, or noun only, or verb only, or adjective, etc.

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Hi LingQ Team @nsprung ,

I came across this issue in a discussion from over two years ago, and as a new subscriber, I was extremely disappointed to encounter it after signing up. What makes this even more frustrating is that it remains unresolved after all this time.

It is unacceptable that your software still does not correctly handle German noun capitalisation — a fundamental language rule. Please prioritise fixing this issue as soon as possible. A delay of more than two years is simply not reasonable.

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Hi Team LingQ,

I have just found another post from 2013 (LingQ in the German part - nouns). Please prioritise fixing this issue as soon as possible. This is simply unacceptable.

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@abengt This problem was actually solved a while ago and capitalized words saved in the Vocabulary remain capitalized.

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Hi @zoran,

Thank you for your reply. However, that does not seem to be the case for me. I have saved numerous capitalised words from the materials, but they automatically changed to lowercase, and there does not appear to be any way to edit them. Only a handful of words remain capitalised.

Is there a way for the LingQ team to address this issue at a fundamental level? I would appreciate a clearer and more accurate explanation.

Thank you.

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@abengt Can you please provide an example of a word you saved in a lesson as capitalized and it appear in lowercase in the Vocabulary? That would help. Thanks!

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Hi @Zoran,

Thank you for your response. Here are a few examples of the issue:

  • am Stadtrand became am stadtrand
  • Forschungseinrichtung became forschungseinrichtung
  • infiziert er sich selbst immer wieder mit Tropenkrankheiten became infiziert er sich selbst immer wieder mit tropenkrankheiten
  • UNO became Uno (the first letter of this one somehow mains capitalised but the others are converted into lowercase)

In addition to words saved from lessons, I have also noticed that nouns I manually added to my vocabulary list (not from lessons) are also being converted to lowercase. For example:

  • Abschlusszeugnis became abschlusszeugnis
  • Geburtsurkunde became geburtsurkunde
  • der Schaulustiger became der schaulustiger

What is even more frustrating is that some lowercase words are being capitalised incorrectly:

  • einhalten became Einhalten
  • schwingen became Schwingen
  • durch became Durch
  • ständigen became Ständigen
  • warnt became Warnt
  • forschen became Forschen
  • auslösen became Auslösen
  • nennt became Nennt

This is a really frustrating UX issue, and I would greatly appreciate support from you or the LingQ team to resolve it.

Thank you!

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Thanks! We will look into this.

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It is not that simple. To make it even more complicated:

Schwingen is a word that has different meanings. As a noun and capatilized it means the wings of a bird. Also it can be a verb with the meaning swing.

Also a verb in its basic form can be made into a noun and then it would also be capitalized. That could happen to “Einhalten”, “Schwingen”, “Forschen” and “Auslösen”.

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