Difference between revisions of "Language/German/Grammar/Cases"
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There are four cases in German: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive. | There are four cases in German: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive. | ||
* Nominative indicates the subject of a verb, such as "the monkey" in "'''The monkey''' eats a banana." "'''Der Affe''' isst eine Banane." | * 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 indicates the direct object | * Accusative(Akk. or A) indicates the direct object, such as "a pen" in "He bought '''a pen'''." "Er hat '''einen Stift''' gekauft." | ||
* Dative indicates the | * Dative(Dat. or D) indicates the indirict object, such as "him" in "His father will give '''him''' a tricycle." "Sein Vater wird '''ihm''' ein Dreirad geben." | ||
* Genitive usually indicates the possesor of something, such as "my mom" in "This is a helicopter of '''my mom'''." "Das ist ein Hubschrauber '''meiner Mutter'''." | * Genitive(Gen. or G) usually indicates the possesor of something, such as "my mom" in "This is a helicopter of '''my mom'''." "Das ist ein Hubschrauber '''meiner Mutter'''." | ||
This lesson means | Prepositions may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. They can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Prepositions_and_Postpositions/ . | ||
Verbs may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. Dative verbs are few and can be found here: http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/reference/dative-verbs/ and genitive verbs here: https://www.thoughtco.com/frequently-used-german-dative-verbs-4071410/ . And genitive verbs are even fewer and easy to be memorised. You can assume other verbs are all accusative, if you don't want to bother search each new verb you meet. | |||
This lesson means to make people understand quickly. | |||
English Wikibooks has articles on: [[cases|https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Cases]] | |||
Practice resources: | |||
https://quizlet.com/207586948/common-german-genitive-verbs-flash-cards/ | |||
https://quizlet.com/278944306/german-prepositions-and-cases-flash-cards/ | |||
Revision as of 18:07, 2 August 2018
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 indirict 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 possesor of something, such as "my mom" in "This is a helicopter of my mom." "Das ist ein Hubschrauber meiner Mutter."
Prepositions may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. They can be found here: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Prepositions_and_Postpositions/ . Verbs may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. Dative verbs are few and can be found here: http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/reference/dative-verbs/ and genitive verbs here: https://www.thoughtco.com/frequently-used-german-dative-verbs-4071410/ . And genitive verbs are even fewer and easy to be memorised. You can assume other verbs are all accusative, if you don't want to bother search each new verb you meet.
This lesson means to make people understand quickly.
English Wikibooks has articles on: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Cases
Practice resources:
https://quizlet.com/207586948/common-german-genitive-verbs-flash-cards/ https://quizlet.com/278944306/german-prepositions-and-cases-flash-cards/