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- "Sie hat ein kleines Pferd."
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Okay, the noun is: das Pferd.
You need to "decline" adjectives in german.
Ein does not tell us any information (and German needs it!).
So the information gets passed to the adjective (klein).
So: Ein kleines(because of the das) Pferd.
So the adjective 'klein' now shows us the missing 'das'.
This is extremely over-simplified, but there are a lot of helpful charts out there to look at for this.
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Because Pferd is neuter, not masculine or feminine, so it takes 'ein' instead of einen or eine.
Someone else posted this link, and things began clicking for me. I'd love to give credit, but I forget which thread it is.
http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar/adjektivendungenexpl.html