German has retained many of the grammatical distinctions that other Germanic languages have lost in whole or in part.

The grammatical distinctions made by nouns are also made by pronouns.

A couple of small sub-categories can be distinguished in these categories, reflecting former grammatical distinctions or constructions which no longer exist:

I mean, all these ridiculous little grammatical distinctions, who cares?

German has a grammatical distinction between preterite (Präteritum) and perfect (Perfekt).

In the daughter languages, these came to be important markers of grammatical distinctions.

There is no grammatical distinction between singular and plural, even in pronouns.

About half of Native American languages have this grammatical distinction, regardless of the languages' families.

He argues that since there is no grammatical distinction between past and present, Hopi has a future-nonfuture tense system.

The verbal "'stem"' itself can also express grammatical distinctions.