Introduction to German Cases, part 1: Cases as "Roles"

This video is designed for beginning German learners and gives an introduction to the case system in German. Examples illustrate what cases are and how they are used. Part 1 discusses the difference in cases as the difference in "roles" that a noun can play in a sentence. Basic grammar (subject, object) in English is recapped to show the parallels in German.

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[israaeel]

Thank you so much for uploading this! It has helped me a lot

I am just learning German and I will make sure to share this with my classmates

[Connect2German]

@israaeel Glad that you fount it useful.

[Hardy30680]

You have the 4 "German" cases in English. If you understand the difference between he / him / to him / his, then you understand the difference between nominative (he) / accusative (him) / dative (to him) / genitive (his). So you can say that "he sees him" and "him sees he" have the same meaning in German because the form of the pronouns shows you who´s doing action (he) and who´s receiving action (him). That means the word order isn´t important for the meaning of the sentence. Flexibility ;-)

[Connect2German]

@Hardy30680 Very good way to explain it! More videos to come soon that will explore more uses for the cases - mainly certain verbs and prepositions.

[ThePutipa]

thank you so so much x1000! this is such a big help, its really getting it into my head! :)