| '''Die''' Schweine
| '''Die''' Schweine
| '''Der''' Schweine| '''Denn''' Schweine*| '''nDen'''Schweine
|}
| Ein'''es''' Schwein'''s'''*
|}
<nowiki>*With the genitive case, masculine and neutral nouns take the "s" or "es" ending, while the plural form of masculine and neutral nouns take the "n" endingin dative.</nowiki>
Any other articles take endings by gender and case according to one of these two models. Other examples of article types include possessive (mein Hund = my dog) negative (kein Schwein = no pig), and "this one" (diese Ente = this duck).