German Cases
Genitiv Präpositionen
General Grammar
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This case designates the subject of a sentence.
What is the nominative case? (der Nominativ)
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Means "during" something. z.B. _______ des Sommers wohnt er bei seinen Großeltern.
What is während?
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In linguistics, this is a "describing word", the main syntactic role of which is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object.
What are adjectives?
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Eines Tages sollten wir das machen.
What is "Some day we ought do that."
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This following sentence is an example of which case, "Sie ist ein kleines Kind." In this case, the subject can also be the "object" of the verbs sein, werden, and bleiben.
What is the nominative case? (der Nominativ)
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Means whose.
What is wessen?
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This part of the sentence is the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
What is the subject? (das Subjekt)
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Eines Morgens hat er vergessen, sich die Schuhe anzuziehen.
What is "One morning he forgot to put his shoes on."
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Mir, dir, ihm, ihr, and uns, are all personal pronouns of which case?
What is the dative case?
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Means "in spite of"
What is "trotz"?
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Traditional grammar defines what in a sentence as the entity that is acted upon by the subject. Tom studies grammar - z.B. Tom is the subject and grammar is the, what?
What is the object of a sentence? (der Objekt)
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Eines Sonntags gehen wir in die Kirche.
What is, "Some Sunday we'll go to church."
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"Der Motor dieses Autos ist viel zu klein." contains an example of which German case?
What is the genitive case? (der Genitiv)
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Means "because of"
What is "wegen"?
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Trotz der Kälte wollen wir schwimmen gehen.
What is "Despite the cold we want to go swimming."
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This case is used to designate the direct object of a verb z.B."Sie sucht einen reichen Mann."
What is the accusative case? (der Akkusativ)
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Means "instead of"
What is "anstatt"?
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As a class these words are among the most frequently used words in the language. They indicate the relationship of a noun (or pronoun) to another element in the utterance.
What is are prepositions?
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Er ist ein Freund von mir.
What is "He's a friend of mine."
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