"Das schwarze Kleid ist fertig."

Translation: The black dress is finished.

[RoeyKelner]

Why isn't it "schwatzes"?

[adinkov2001]

Think of it as the Das sucked the S out of schwarzes. Funny but works better than trying to remember 48 different combinations for adjective declinations.

[wataya]

You proably meant "schwarzes".

Definite article: weak inflection

See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declension#Attributive_adjectives

[Primakyra]

But there it says..: Weak declension is used when there is a preceding definite article ("der-word"). And it is 'Das Kleid'.

[wataya]

The definite article for neuter nouns is "das".

[Primakyra]

Thanks! I think I finally got it ;). So it is "das schwarze Kleid" and "ein schwarzes Kleid".

[wataya]

Yes, that's right.

[GregHullender]

Schwarzes would be the strong ending, but das is already strong, so you use the weak ending, schwarze.

If you think in terms of strong and weak (forget "mixed") this becomes much easier to memorize. If the determiner is strong (i.e. has the der-word endings) then the adjectives after it are weak. If the derminer is weak or absent, then the adjectives are strong.

http://gregreflects.blogspot.com/2015/02/how-to-memorize-german-cases.html

[CatharineE1]

Holy cow, is that ever helpful!

[Ry_Dawg]

This is fantastic! Thanks for sharing!!

[PiotrJacek1]

Thank you very much!

[niloy19]

Weak inflection nominative case singular neuter brings -e right no ?

[KaanKaragl]

Totally sounds like der ...

[screamsintovoid]

i wrote that black dress is finished and it said i got it wrong?

[MaurDL]

If that is literally what you wrote then report it.

[exterminie]

Can we say "the black dress is done"

[exterminie]

Can we say "the black dress is done"?