German Cases in Action - Der Tisch

[HCLaurin]

Cool, meine alte Schule. Zumindest die Ecke scheint sich seit meinem Abi 2003 gar nicht verändert zu haben.

[NickMB]

How come it's "Jakob fällt mit dem Gesicht auf die Tischplatte" and not "Jakob fällt mit seinem Gesicht auf die Tischplatte"?

[magauchsein]

@NickMB

you don't need to say that it was "his" face because there were no other faces around so it's obvious. So you just get the declination right by saying: mit dem Gesicht" (witch is Dative, after "mit" there always will be Dative).

[Skeletty1710]

deja vous

wie war das nochmal bei "Wetten dass"...

gut, dass Jakob noch laufen kann

[Proman476]

Jakob ist tot

[erinokaz]

Done German for 3 years now and still have no idea which case is which and when to use them :P

[magauchsein]

@erinokaz

I'm going to make a tutorial about this because it's basically very simple:

you only need to know the difference between accusative and dative.

If you ask: Who do I see? Wen sehe ich? Dann die Antwort will always be in accusative: Ich sehe einen Mann. Ich sehe eine Frau. Ich sehe ein Kind. - as you see: only the masculine noun changes. So it's easy to learn.

And so on...

[Skeletty1710]

@erinokaz I know what you mean, even most germans don't know exactly how to use which phrase

[Crunkionaire]

0:46  schreit ein Kind :" Ohoooo Fick dich " xD

[ArtemRomanov]

1:09 crys? prob cries?

[fuggify]

lol jakob ist sehr doof

[togra111]

ich musste so lachen als jakob fiel xD roflmao aber echt musste er heulen ? xD

[SharpshooterGermany]

Jakob ist ne Schwuchtel wenn er deswegen Weint.

[magauchsein]

@SharpshooterGermany

:)

[DBSpeakers]

Nur bei ein Witz, es sollte Jakob tot nach der Verletzung hinfallen zeigen. Das wollte ein lustig lehrreich Film sein.

[falafelhotdog]

Ok well this was completely unhelpful. How is it supposed to help me when even the English translations don't make sense?

[magauchsein]

the table - der Tisch

Auf dem Tisch steht eine Blume. (Dative for something which stays on one place)

Ich stelle eine Blume auf den Tisch. (Accusative for something I'm moving to that place)

the bench - die Bank

Ich sitze auf der Bank (Dative)

Ich setze mich auf die Bank (Accusative)

[kathysoiio]

@magauchsein thanks for the explanation!

[Skeletty1710]

@magauchsein wrong

Ich sitze auf der Bank "mit jemandem" = DATIV "auf der Bank"= adverbiale Lokale (sorry, but I had to correct this one)

[JosephLagrange]

Why is it Jakob sitzt auf "dem" Tisch ? shouldnt it be accusative since it is an action? Why it is refering to place?

Thanks for uploading the vid.

[ErklaerMirDieWelt]

@JosephLagrange "auf den Tisch" answers the question "wohin?" (where to?) --> accusative, "auf dem Tisch" answers the question "wo?" (where?) --> dative. as a rule of thumb, you can say, that if a moving from point A to point B is involved, it's probably an accusative.

[qeib87]

I just have this very interesting question; does anybody consider it possible that German will lose its declensions (cases) as many other European languages have, such as Dutch? It would be interesting to know what this language would look like without its cases. Greetings. =)

[ErklaerMirDieWelt]

@qeib87 German is indeed in the process of losing the Genitiv case, which is more and more surpressed by the Dativ, eg. "dem Peter sein Haus" instead of "Peters Haus" or "wegen dem Mittagessen" instead of "wegen des Mittagessens". There are big debates if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

[EhRenK0deX]

@qeib87 Hmm, Perhaps it would sound something like this:

De Mann ist da. Ich seh de Mann. Seh Sie de Mann? Wer ist de Mann? Wo ist de Frau? De Frau ist mit de Mann. Wo sind de Kinder? De Kinder sind in de Haus. Wir hab ein gross Haus. Mög Sie unser schön Haus?

To a native that probably sounds like a half-retarded caveman. (lol) It sure would be a heck of a lot easier though. :-)

[qeib87]

I just have this very interesting question; does anybody consider it possible that German will lose its declensions (cases) as many other European languages have, such as Dutch? It would be interesting to know what this language would look like without its cases. Greetings. =)

[setherial666]

@qeib87 As a rule of thumb, I find that the evolution of any language results in a simplification of it. Dutch, German and English all had similiar origins. The Dutch and English languages probably both lost their cases (despite their similar origins) due to their respective global popularities at some point. If the language is simpler to speak, learn and understand, that means that more people will be able to communicate in the language, and thus fortifying whatever benefit that language has.

[jupitermoon10011]

Sorry to keep making corrections, but who is providing your English translations??? This sentence is completely incorrect: "Jakob is lifting himself at the table top up." In English, we would say: "Jakob is lifting himself up with the table top."

[magauchsein]

thank you. Next time I will ask you to correct our English before we publish a video :D

[jupitermoon10011]

@magauchsein Sure, I would be happy to :-)

[jupitermoon10011]

Furthermore, we would more likely say "Jakob swings his legs" rather than "Jakob sways his legs". Also, he falls on the GROUND, not on the "floor". A "floor" would be inside of a building; outside, we correctly say "ground".

[jupitermoon10011]

Nice lesson. But for your information, in English we don't say "sways with his legs". We say, correctly: "sways his legs". No need to add "with".

[ilovefuck08]

fuck me jacob

[MrJackman666]

tja jakob is halt dumm:)

[Gorn3000]

DEINE MUDDA!!!!

der hat sich bestimmt weh getan

XD XD XD XD XD XD

[dowhatthouwilt911]

I am confused. When "Jakob setzt sich auf den Tisch" den Tisch is in the accusative.

But in the next sentence "Jakob setzt auf dem Tisch und wackelt mit den Beinen"; dem Tisch is now dative, along with den Beinen.

Why the change in case?

[magauchsein]

accusative indicates the movement: auf den Tisch: onto the table

dative: there is no movement. the thing lies on the table.

[dowhatthouwilt911]

danke

Ich muss mehr studierren

[gosmon]

@dowhatthouwilt911 There are some other prepositions that work like this. They can be followed by both the accusative or the dative case. The most common prepositions that work like this are: an, auf, hinter, in, neben, über, unter, vor and zwischen. A few of the prepositions that are always followed by the accusative case: durch, für, gegen, ohne and um. And finally, those that are followed by the dative case only: aus, ausser, bei, gegenüber, mit, nach, seit, von and zu.

[JosephLagrange]

@gosmon thanks I forgot that for a second :-P

[nappybiscuit]

Hey, that was good.

[jaimelamusiquebill]

Hi is there a part 2? I'd really like to learn more from these videos! They're soo helpful Thanks alot and keep up the good job!

[SonOfKwisatzHaderach]

Great idea But, you speak TO FAST ! repeat each sentence twice and leave a bigger gap between each new sentence... NO Time to mentally digest at all..

[concertmatell]

I think it's great just as it is.

In real life you'll get no gaps, and last thing you want is for someone to be repeating themselves to you.

Learn it at normal rate, take it in little at a time it's possible.

[moi310]

thank you . it took me so long to get all the cases. gave you 5 stars.thanks a lot.

[ameriqq]

Lesson from Sadistic Hidden Videos.

[magauchsein]

good idea :D

[starkey7uk]

Shame - no happy ending!

[asmodeus585]

Thanks, this one is really great! It helps a lot. :)

[jellyninja0]

danke du

[avalallo]

Ok, sehr lustig..aber für mich git es einen Fehler. Ich glaube dass man "Der Tisch liegt im Schulhof" sagt..oder? Ich habe immer deutsch gelernt und wenn ich mich daran gut erinnere, stehen wird für Menschen verwendet, oder? Tschüsss

[highestcount]

Things went straight to shit for poor Jakob right around 0:40.

[HafdirTasare]

Öhm, auch nicht schlecht, die deutschen einfach als Leute darzustellen die gegen irgendwelche Objekte laufen, runterfallen und sich weh tun, auch ne Möglichkeit der Volkskommunikationsförderung

[criskubli]

sehr witzig und lustig!

[loewe1884]

lol!! lustig!! =]]

[daglug1]

ja, das mag ich.

ich denke das es ein sehr gute idea zu mehr videos wie dies machen ist

[BritishAtHeart357]

rofl when jakob fell from the table

[PauloNideck]

Sehr lustig und originell!

[welshboy118]

lol

i liked that,

ich mag das

[JordanMaster22]

has strange plot, which is why its funny

[Jingjo72]

PRIMA!!!!!

[lollavid]

Super Idee fuer den DaF Unterricht!

[00sri00]

menschen die einfach kein leben haben drehen so eine scheiße...

[glidingbirdie]

hey I hv never listened to German songs before.. do u mind suggesting good singers to me?? Girls / guys both ok!

THANK YOU SO MUUUCH

[magauchsein]

visit our German Forum on (w w w) solarnet (d o t) tv

We also have a Music Forum with a lot of German (not only) music.

[2006soccerguy]

mehr bitte.

[39rc6cf]

She's pronouncing "table" as "tush." That's wrong. A tush is someone's rear end.

[magauchsein]

as long she doesn't say: du tushloch

[39rc6cf]

Jakob, der am Boden liegt, ist ein Schwanz.

[betavsall973]

Thanks for this. It a very good learning aid for me

[7malefiz7]

Und wann fällt er vom Hochhaus...?

[diepartyistvorbei]

Awesome!

[cranterny]

Lol! Nice. xD Thanks for this!

[tateanna1981]

Well done! Thanks alot!

[crisi4me]

:D:D:D Jakooooob haha xD

[gescheite]

Super! Coole Idee!

[wrongloop]

Danke schön.

[erictwelvevids]

LOL nice. great vid (5'd)

[Biodude377]

Thank you sooo much for videos such as this! I can't wait to see more German language videos. Danke!

[JaliceJally]

Poor Jakob

[julia2night]

Der Hammer!!!!!!! <3

[granolasoos]

LOL

[zenkaiser1]

vielen danke magauchsain.

[osirisra]

Auch!