Adjective Endings Without an Article

No article means the adjective itself has to signal the case

When der or ein is dropped — typically with uncountable nouns like coffee, or bare plurals — German doesn't let the adjective off the hook: starker Kaffee takes der's own -er ending in the nominative, while mit starkem Kaffee takes dem's -em ending in the dative, because with no article present the adjective has to carry the case information itself. Telugu's బలమైన ('strong') faces no such burden: it stays exactly బలమైన whether కాఫీ is the subject of the sentence or the object of a postposition, because Telugu marks grammatical role on the noun — with case suffixes and postpositions like -తో ('with') — and never on the adjective. This is the starkest possible contrast between German and Telugu adjective behavior in the whole course, and mechanically it's also the easiest of German's three adjective-ending patterns: every ending here is just der/die/das's own case ending relocated onto the adjective, so if you already know your der-word endings across all four cases, you already know this pattern.