Language/German/Grammar/Objects

Hello everyone!

Today I want to share a really important part of German language with you.

As you know, "the articles" is an important issue in learning German. Every noun you can imagine in German has an article based on its group. We have 3 groups of words in German: male (Maskulin), female (Feminin) and neutral (Neutral), and they have 3 main articles like this:

male:der, female:die, neutral:das.

• for example: der Tisch (the desk), die Tasche (the bag), das Fenster (the window).

Based on this issue, you have changed articles in Objective forms. We have two objective forms in German: Akkusativ (accusative) und (and) Dativ (dative)-

now look how they change in the accusative form:

• Hier ist der Tisch. (the desk is here.)----->>> Ich sehe den Tisch. (I see the desk.)

• Hier ist die Tasche. (the bag is here.)------>>> Ich sehe die Tasche.(I see the bag.)

• Hier ist das Fenster (the window is here.)---->>> Ich sehe das Fenster. (I see the window.)

You can see that only and only male form chages from "der" to "den", the other ones stay like their main form in the accusative form.

But in dative, or Dativ, form you have all of them changed. look at the example:

• Der Vater ist da (The father is there.)--->>>Ich helfe dem Vater. (I help the father.)

• Die Mutter ist da (The mother is there.)--->> Ich helfe der Mutter. (I help the mother.)

• Das Kind ist da. (The child is there.)------->> Ich helfe dem Kind. (I help the child.)

Now you see that all articles change in dative form; Der becomes dem, die becomes der and das becomes dem. And for articles before the names, you have these important rules.

Good luck and enjoy learning German.

MJ Mahdizadeh