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The nominative case is the subject of the sentence — is the person, place, thing, idea, etc. that is doing something.
Example:
What is the deal with German adjective endings?!
Why do we have to put -m, -n, -r, -s, -e onto the ends of adjectives? And how do we know which one to use when?!
Learning German adjective endings is crucial to speaking German well … but it can feel so random, nonsensical, and overwhelming.
I have good news … you’re likely doing it all wrong! 🙃
Like the genitive case as a whole, genitive prepositions are a sticky subject.
Some genitive prepositions are still used, but more and more are replaced by dative constructions. How does one know when to use what? (<-- we’ll talk about that!)
At this point in your German-learning journey, you’ve probably got a good sense for accusative and dative prepositions (<– if not, start there!).
But now there’s a whole category of prepositions that switch back-and-forth between the accusative (when indicating direction) and dative (when indicating location)?! *facepalm*
Nah, actually it’s not that bad. 😉
No language-learning is complete without tackling prepositions. They are pretty necessary little words that add important info on when, where, how and with whom things are done!
Prepositions are little words such as with, for, against, to, on, over, under, in, behind, between, through, etc. that we use all. the. time. in both English & German.
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