Language/German/Grammar/Objects

Hello everybody,

In today's lesson you will learn how to use ¨CASES AND OBJECTS¨ in German.

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Happy learning ! :)

When you've comprehended the knowledge in this module, you may be keen on exploring these related areas: Gender, Be Polite, Descriptive Adjectives & Cases: Nominative and Accusative.

Some words for Cases and Objects in German

ENGLISH	PRONUNCIATION ENGLISH	GERMAN	PRONUNCIATION BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE	BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE
	Nominative		Nominativo
The desk	dehr teesh	Der Tisch	dér tiich	A mesa
The bag	dee tah sheh	Die Tasche	dii taa che	A mala
The window	dahs fehns tuhr	Das Fenster	dás féns târ	A Janela
	Accusative		Acusativo
I see the desk	ih kh zeh eh dehn teesh	Ich sehe den Tisch	iCH zee e den tiich	Eu vejo a mesa
I see the bag	ih kh zeh eh dee tah sheh	Ich sehe die Tasche	iCH zee e dii taa che	Eu vejo a mala
I see the window	ih kh zeh eh dahs fehns tuhr	Ich sehe das Fenster	iCH zee e dás féns târ	Eu vejo a janela
	Dative		Dativo
I help the father	ih kh hehl feh dehm fah tuhr	Ich helfe dem Vater	iCH HeL fe dem fá târ	Eu ajudo o pai
I help the mother	ih kh hehl feh dehr mou tuhr	Ich helfe der Mutter	iCH HeL fe dér mú târ	Eu ajudo a mãe
I help the child	ih kh hehl feh dehm kihnt	Ich helfe dem Kind	iCH HeL fe dem kínt	Eu ajudo a criança

Hello everyone!

Today I want to share a really important part of German language with you.

As you know, "the articles" is an important issue in learning German. Every noun you can imagine in German has an article based on its group. We have 3 groups of words in German: male (Maskulin), female (Feminin) and neutral (Neutral), and they have 3 main articles like this:

male:der, female:die, neutral:das.

• for example: der Tisch (the desk), die Tasche (the bag), das Fenster (the window).

Based on this issue, you have changed articles in Objective forms. We have two objective forms in German: Akkusativ (accusative) und (and) Dativ (dative)-

now look how they change in the accusative form:

• Hier ist der Tisch. (the desk is here.)----->>> Ich sehe den Tisch. (I see the desk.)

• Hier ist die Tasche. (the bag is here.)------>>> Ich sehe die Tasche.(I see the bag.)

• Hier ist das Fenster (the window is here.)---->>> Ich sehe das Fenster. (I see the window.)

You can see that only and only male form chages from "der" to "den", the other ones stay like their main form in the accusative form.

But in dative, or Dativ, form you have all of them changed. look at the example:

• Der Vater ist da (The father is there.)--->>>Ich helfe dem Vater. (I help the father.)

• Die Mutter ist da (The mother is there.)--->> Ich helfe der Mutter. (I help the mother.)

• Das Kind ist da. (The child is there.)------->> Ich helfe dem Kind. (I help the child.)

Now you see that all articles change in dative form; Der becomes dem, die becomes der and das becomes dem. And for articles before the names, you have these important rules.

Good luck and enjoy learning German.

MJ Mahdizadeh

Other Lessons

• Questions
• Nouns
• Present Tense
• Past Tense Part 1 Perfect Tense
• Definite Articles in German
• Future Tense
• Pronouns in German
• Cases
• Past Participle in German
• Past Tense