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

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

can be found here:

http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/reference/dative-verbs

Genitive verbs

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

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

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/

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• Past Tense
• Past Participle in German
• Present Tense
• Indefinite Articles in German
• Prepositions
• Pronouns in German
• Imperative Tense