Difference between revisions of "Language/German/Grammar/Cases"

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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:

Verbs may require accusative, dative or genitive objects.

Dative verbs can be found here:

Genitive verbs can e found here:

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.

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 Prepositions may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. They can be found here:
-https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Prepositions_and_Postpositions/.
+https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/German/Grammar/Prepositions_and_Postpositions.
 Verbs may require accusative, dative or genitive objects.
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 Dative verbs can be found here:
-http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/reference/dative-verbs/
+http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/reference/dative-verbs
 Genitive verbs can e found here:
-https://www.thoughtco.com/frequently-used-german-dative-verbs-4071410/
+https://www.thoughtco.com/frequently-used-german-dative-verbs-4071410
 You can assume other verbs are all accusative, if you don't want to bother search each new verb you meet.