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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 Genitive verbs can e found here:
-https://www.thoughtco.com/frequently-used-german-dative-verbs-4071410
+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.