German Declension - Non-declining Geographic Attributive Adjectives

Non-declining Geographic Attributive Adjectives

Many German locality names have an attributive adjective associated with them which ends in -er, for example Berliner for Berlin and Hamburger for Hamburg, which are not marked for case but always end in -er. Das Brandenburger Tor (English: the Brandenburg Gate) is perhaps the most prominent example of this. Note the -er ending despite the neuter gender of the word Tor. If the place name ends in -en, like Göttingen, the -er usually replaces the terminal -en.