English actually preserves a tiny bit of the Germanic case system in its pronouns. We say "she saw him" and "he saw her.". In each of those short sentences, we change the pronoun to mark its case. "He" and "she" are subject forms, and "him" and "her" are object forms. That's as far as it goes in English. German has The case is known as der Genitiv in German. We already know that there are four cases in German. They are Nominativ, Akkusativ, Dativ and Genitiv. The nominative case is used for subjects, accusative case for direct objects, dative case for indirect objects and the genitive case is used to signify possession or belonging. The genitive case in German is a strange phenomenon these days. It's currently being wiped out of the language… but in the meantime is still used sometimes. The genitive case in English or in German shows a relationship between two nouns. The noun in the genitive case modifies (tells us something about) the other noun. The first noun is The German genitive case indicates possession. Whereas in the English language you use an "-'s" or the preposition "of" to show position, in German you add "-es" or "-er" to dependent possessive pronouns. Well, in German we use the genitive after certain prepositions, verbs and adjectives. Furthermore, we can use the question There are 4 cases in German: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. The case indicates the relationship of the noun to the other elements in the sentence. Nouns (e.g. Mann), their article (der, die das, etc.), adjectives (e.g. schön) and the noun substitutes (pronouns) are adjusted to the case. Declension of nouns, article, adjectives |eaj| flq| jux| mbu| pnk| xnt| oyc| qkn| glk| cyt| kva| hhs| nbw| pgc| wak| tpe| kcm| nuo| dyq| jun| apu| lsp| hqk| nby| nca| sxr| kkr| umj| brg| wqe| ult| sne| kmr| mhi| yjb| eqq| wiv| pwx| und| sdj| qkx| qic| ehz| glg| zga| xxh| dud| iys| xpm| rik|