02 German for beginners Articles Accusative Case.wmv

This begins a series of simple learning,
revision and practice videos
for people starting German.

I recommend starting with Nominative and then going through to
Accusative, Dative and Genitive


The German pronunciation here is kindly provided
by my fellow musician and friend Reinhold Behringer
(different regions may vary slightly: Reinhold's accent
is close to the "standard" version
but with a slight hint of Franconian (Würzburg area))

These videos use the same (public domain) images throughout
and put the relevant articles
through the various cases in singular and plural.



I have higlighted the articles in the videos as appropriate.

You will also see changes in the nouns
(plural forms and dative plural forms),
but I am not concentrating on these at the moment,
just take them as they are.


For convenience I'm providing a table here
of all cases and genders
for the articles in question.




German definite articles (= "the") Nominative Accusative Genitive Dative

Masculine der den des dem
singular

Feminine die die der der
singular

Neuter das das des dem
singular


All Plurals die die der den



German indefinite articles (= a/an, some) Nominative Accusative Genitive Dative

Masculine ein einen eines einem
singular

Feminine eine eine einer einer
singular

Neuter ein ein eines einem
singular


All Plurals einige einige einiger einigen




For a little variety I have also added a few examples with
the German word for "this" Nominative Accusative Genitive Dative

Masculine dieser diesen dieses diesem
singular

Feminine diese diese dieser dieser
singular

Neuter dieses dieses dieses diesem
singular


All Plurals diese diese dieser diesen



If feedback is favourable, I shall make some more videos of this kind,
using these ones with added adjectives, for example
in order to illustrate how the adjective endings
change after the various articles (eg "des klugen Mannes" etc)

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