摘要：AbstractThis study is intended to serve as a guide to teachers of German who are teaching German as a foreign language and as a second language, by contrasting the grammatical structures of contemporary German and Macedonian language. This study is limited to the grammatical categorynumber of nounsonly. By contrasting the two systems point for point, teachers can more readily see just those places where there are dissimilarities - and congruence - between the two systems and where students of one, say Macedonians who wish to learn German, can more readily be made aware of what to look out for as they practice grammar drills in the target language. The morphological exponence of the noun categories of case, number and gender in German language presents the linguist with some singularly difficult problems largely because their realization does not occur uniformly through a system of suffixed formatives on the noun, as in the classical inflecting languages, but most often in part or exclusively through formatives on those other members of the noun phrase which are traditionally seen as standing in a relationship of agreement to the noun.
