Learn German - Lesson 5

Hello and welcome to German 1. In lesson 5 you will find the complete declension of the German definite article with all its forms. Thank you for watching.

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German 1

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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[UinDVM]

Hello! Thanks for the instructional videos!

I have a few questions:

1. Is there a logic or reason for the fem/netuter forms' accusative and nominative to have the same definite article (might make it easier to remember if you know why there is a diff. definite article for each case)

2. Are there 4 cases to every word in the language..for eg. 4 cases for Mann?

[DeutschOnlineLernen]

@UinDVM Hello and thank you very much for your questions.

The German declension system has these four cases, and you can find all four of them in words that are declined, such as articles, nouns or adjectives. A word, however, can have the same form for different cases.

The nominative and accusative forms of feminine and neuter words are always the same, so you can actually use this to help you memorize the various declensions.

Best regards.

[xThorProductionsx]

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[dingdongditch98]

Aww man this will take a while, but ill stick with it.

[Gustavomazu]

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[H0tguy760]

I got this :)

[Hardy30680]

@MonicaKn17 And the different cases allow you to use flexible word orders. In English, the word order is important for the meaning of the sentence (the dog bites the man ... the man bites the dog ... = 2 different meanings). But in German, you can change the position of dog and man and you can keep the meaning of the sentence if you want to. He sees him / Him sees he ... both expressions have the same meaning, they both work in German. The word order is not that important. Pretty cool thing ;-)

[Hardy30680]

@MonicaKn17 Nominative = doing action, even the verb "to be" (THE MAN PLAYS football, THE CHILD IS young) ... Accusative = receiving action (the child takes THE TOY, i see YOU) ... Dative = to/of/with someone/something (to the man, of him, with the children) ... Genitive = possession/relationship (THE MAN´S car, MY house, THEIR friends) ... There is a specific question for every case: Nominative = who/what? ... Accusative = whom/what? ... Dative = to/of/with whom/what? ... Genetive = whose?

[MonicaKn17]

Could someone please explain exactly in what circumstances the nominative genitive dative and accusative are used? What the difference between them?

[Karash770]

@yaa903 "der" is used in Nominative Singular and Genitive Plural for male words as well as in Genitive Singular, Dative Singular and Genitive Plural for female words. It's also used in Genitive Plural for neutral words.

[ninification1]

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[yaa903]

it is funny that they use der for male/female in different situation... it is confusion by interesting