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* 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." | * 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." | * 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 | * 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 | * 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'''." | ||
Prepositions may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. They can be found here: | Prepositions may require accusative, dative or genitive objects. They can be found here: | ||
Revision as of 15:24, 26 November 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 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."
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 e 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.
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/