das kollektiv

In linguistics, a word used to define a group of objects, where "objects" can be people, animals, inanimate things, concepts etc, is known as a collective noun.

Most collective nouns encountered in everyday speech (such as "group") are mundane and are not specific to one kind of constituent object (for example, the uses "group of people", "group of dogs", are all correct uses).

However, good grammar necessitates the use of collective nouns specific to one kind of constituent object. For example, a "pride" of lions, or... a "case" of beer :