I'm taking German. The teacher only speaks German and I'm having a really diffacult time understanding the difference between Akkusativ and Dativ. (Wem und Wen) Can someone please help or tell me where to go for help.
2007-11-29 02:22:37 · 7 answers · asked by jjja1966 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Akkusativ and Dativ are not so easy for someone speaking English as there is no formal difference in English.
German knows 4 different cases Nominative-Genitiv-Dativ-Akkusativ.
Nominative is in English also referred to as subject case, Genitiv is possessive case, Dativ is often referred to as indirect object and Akkusativ as direct object.
Here a nice German sentence with all four cases - maybe it helps a little to distinguish one from the other:
Die Sekretärin des Schriftstellers sandte dem Verlag das Manuskript. (The writer's secretary sent the manuscript to the publisher).
Die Sekretärin - nom. (subject)
des Schriftstellers - gen. (poss. case)
sandte - verb (predicat)
dem Verlag (indirect object - you must ask "to whom")
das Manuskript (direkt object - you can ask "what" did she send).
Also have a look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_case
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusative_case
2007-11-29 04:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-08-11 01:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can't just "explain" what these are. some prepositions introduce a dative case, others an accusative case, others still a genitive...
as a rule, if these two stand as simple objects without an introducing preposition, you have to ask "what/who(m)" if you want to answer by an accusative case, and "for/to what/whom" if you want a dative case.
example : i love him -> i love whom= accusative => ich liebe IHN
i give him a parcel -> i give to whom = dative, what = accusative => ich gebe IHM ein Geschenk
2007-11-29 02:41:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know the difference but it is quite hard to explain! I would suggest www.about.com click on education click on languages click on German. That site explains it way better than I ever could
2007-11-29 02:25:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm German born and raised and I have issues with it. I think if I was more awake I could probably explain it. so I'm going to come back later if nobody explained it to you! But personally I think you should go to the teacher and ask him to explain it in English, unless of course he can't speak English!
I'll be back!
Good luck!
2007-11-29 02:26:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wish I could help since I am German- but what is WEM and WEN?
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2007-11-29 02:26:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋