Learn German - Lesson 14

Hello and welcome to German1. Lesson 14 will show you how some German nouns of the s-declension can take two different genitive endings, and some have a doubling of the s. Thank you for watching.

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Lesson 1: "sein" - present tense. The personal pronouns
Lesson 2: The grammatical gender
Lesson 3: The grammatical number
Lesson 4: The grammatical case
Lesson 5: The definite article - forms
Lesson 6: The definite article - nominative and genitive
Lesson 7: The definite article - dative and accusative
Lesson 8: "haben" - present tense
Lesson 9: The conjugation system
Lesson 10: The verb - present tense endings
Lesson 11: The verb - irregular present tense
Lesson 12: The singular noun - n-declension
Lesson 13: The singular noun - s-declension (1)
Lesson 14: The singular noun - s-declension (2)
Lesson 15: The singular noun - s-declension (3)
Lesson 16: The singular noun - zero declension
Lesson 17: The plural noun - declension
Lesson 18: The indefinite article - forms
Lesson 19: The indefinite article - nominative and genitive
Lesson 20: The indefinite article - dative and accusative
Lesson 21: The preposition - contractions

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[Llarky]

I have a question. It says in the video the noun following "warten auf" should be in the accusative form but what about "die Ankunft" why is it "Wir warten auf DIE ankunft"? Excuse my ignorance in this matter.

[DeutschOnlineLernen]

Thank you very much for your question. "die" in this sentence is the accusative singular form of the feminine definitie article "die". You might want to have another look at lessons 5 and 7 where this form is introduced.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes.

[FatRatfuhlife]

hi, i am a native german speaker and when i see this, i imagine its very hard to learn german if you are a beginner! dont give up!

[albertoflugbegleiter]

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[Karash770]

@danghvu Both are correct. You can change the placement of the objective in order to put emphasis on certain parts. Usually, the last part of the sentence is emphasized, meaning that in your first example, "mit dem Bus" is emphasized while in your second phrase the "morgen früh" is emphasized.

[danghvu]

thanks for the video, is the order of the objective important ? for example is this two means the same thing and grammatically correct : Wir kommen morgen frueh mit dem bus vs. Wir kommen mit dem bus morgen frueh ?

[Karash770]

@shosougly11 "ist" (sein, "to be") is intransitive, meaning that it can not be followed by an Object in Accusative (such as "Verspätung" in this example). "hat" (haben, "to have") however is transitive, meaning that it can be followed by an accusative Object.

[shosougly11]

at 3:40 der zug hat verspatung..... the translation is :''the train IS delayed''....... why can't we say :''der zug IST verspatung??????? isnt ''hat'' the verb ''to have''??????

[YohannesF16]

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[dhruv7474]

hello,

can u please suggest some german basic book which can b available in other countries like india!!?

[vanmemet]

I am from Turkey, this will be my second foreign language after english. with these great videos and some help of german.about.com, for 4-5 nights 1-2 hours on internet basic German grammar structure is very clear for me and I like it more than English. thanks.

[nuvaboy]

@Chadcock11 it would make more sense if you:

use the (real) literal translation: Ich bin auf den Zug wartend. ("wartend" is the present participle of "warten")

adapt the progressive form: Ich bin am auf den Zug warten. ("am" meaning "at", "auf-den-Zug-warten" being seen as a phrasal verb)

use another construction with the present tense and the adverb "gerade" (meaning "right now") (most common):  Ich warte gerade auf den Zug

[nuvaboy]

@VenomLady1 like in latin, each noun belongs to one of these declensions, you have to learn die genitive ending to know which way it is declined