"Unser großer Teller ist grün."

Translation: Our big plate is green.

[pnehls]

why could it not be "our bigger plate is green"?

[lupemercedes]

So I am confused as to why it isn't "Unser große Teller ist grün." The word 'großer ' had me thinking 'the big plates' but the verb was not 'sind'. Is this an error on the part of the lesson?

[dankedonkey]

Adjective endings - http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar/adjektivendungenexpl.html

Unser should immediately tell you that Teller is singular. Its adjective needs to show that it is a masculine nominative inflection, so it adds a 'er' to groß. "Unsere Teller" would be "our plates". With that said, Unsere großen Teller would be "our big plates".

That website really helped me out with this kind of stuff.

[HealThySelf]

Thanks. I can see in common problem 1 that Unser does not have an ending, it is as it is, and the ending therefore needs to be at the end of the adjective following.

Schoenen Tag :)

[slowflake]

why is it großER? I thought in maskulin Nominative the ending should be en

[dirron]

Masculine nominative (strong and weak inflection) IS 'er'. Masculine accusative is 'en' whether strong, mixed or weak inflection.

[nasim.dhn]

But I don't understand, why "our BIG plate is green" is true?! Because I think (großer) means bigger!!

[ilovemoviestwo]

When you say bigger, you have to use "größerer"

[nasim.dhn]

thanks :) I need more practice

[AaronDandr]

I don't hear the "R" in "großer", it's because is dumb or is only my ears problem? :-)

[holiday__42]

I hear it fine in the normal speed version, but like you, don't hear the "R" in the slower speed version either, so it's not just you.

[GerardOrne]

Any native German speaker who can tell me if there is a real and identifiable phonetic difference between "grosser" and "grosse"?

Appreciate it guys!