Language/German/Grammar/Cases
Hello everybody,
In today's lesson you will learn how to use ¨CASES¨ in German.
There are four cases in German: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive.
- Nominative (Nom. or N) indicates the subject of a verb, such as "the monkey" in "The monkey eats a banana." "Der Affe isst eine Banane."
- Accusative (Akk. or A) indicates the direct object, such as "a pen" in "He bought a pen." "Er hat einen Stift gekauft."
- Dative (Dat. or D) indicates the indirect object, such as "him" in "His father will give him a tricycle." "Sein Vater wird ihm ein Dreirad geben."
- Genitive (Gen. or G) usually indicates the possessor of something, such as "my mom" in "This is a helicopter of my mom." "Das ist ein Hubschrauber meiner Mutter."
After you've delved into this material, you may find these associated topics worth exploring: Gender, Be Polite, Past Tense Part 1 Perfect Tense & Talking About Obligations.
Prepositions[edit | edit source]
may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. They can be found here:
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Prepositions_and_Postpositions.
Verbs[edit | edit source]
may require accusative, dative or genitive objects.
Dative verbs[edit | edit source]
can be found here:
http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/reference/dative-verbs
Genitive verbs[edit | edit source]
can be found here:
https://easy-deutsch.de/en/verbs/verbs-with-complements/genitive/
You can assume other verbs are all accusative, if you don't want to bother search each new verb you meet.
English Wikibooks has an article on: cases.
In other languages[edit | edit source]
Nos | ENGLISH | PRONUNCIATION
ENGLISH |
GERMAN | PRONUNCIATION
BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE |
BRAZILIAN
PORTUGUESE |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
01 | Nominative : it indicates the
subject of a verb, such as "the monkey" |
Nominativo : Indica o sujeito do verbo, como em
¨o macaco¨ | |||
02 | Ex.:The monkey
eats a banana |
dehr ah feh eest
ah ih neh bah nah neh |
Der Affe isst eine Banane | dér á fe iist áine
ba na ne |
Ex.: O macaco
come a maçã |
03 | |||||
04 | Accusative : It indicates
the direct object, such as "a pen" |
Acusativo : Indica o objeto direto, como em
¨a caneta¨ | |||
05 | Ex.: He bought
a pen |
ehr haht ah ih nehn
shtihft geh cow fiht |
Er hat einen Stift gekauft. | er Hat ái nen chtift
gue káufit |
Ele comprou
uma caneta |
06 | |||||
07 | Dative : It indicates
the indirect object, such as "him" |
Dativo : Indica o objeto indireto, como em (ele) | |||
08 | Ex.: His father will
give him a tricycle |
sah ihn fah tuhr vihrt
ihm ah ihn drah ih rahd geh behn |
Sein Vater wird
ihm ein Dreirad geben |
sáin fátâr vírt im áin
drái rat gue ben |
O pai dele lhe
dará um tricículo |
09 | |||||
10 | Genitive : It usually
indicates the possessor of something, such as "my mom" |
Genitivo : Indica o posuidor de alguma coisa, como em
¨minhã mãe¨ | |||
11 | Ex.: This is
a helicopter of my mom |
dahs ihst ah ihn
hoop chrah ou behr mah ih nuhr mou tuhr |
Das ist ein Hubschrauber meiner Mutter | das ist áin
Hup chráuber mái nâr mu târ |
Este é o
helicóptero da minha mãe |
Practice resources[edit | edit source]
https://quizlet.com/207586948/common-german-genitive-verbs-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/164731009/intermediate-german-dative-verbs-flash-cards/
https://quizlet.com/237466632/german-prepositions-cases-flash-cards/
Other Lessons[edit | edit source]
- Questions
- Common Mistakes
- Inflections of adjectives
- Past Tense
- Past Participle in German
- Present Tense
- Indefinite Articles in German
- Prepositions
- Pronouns in German
- Imperative Tense