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Both nouns and pronouns make changes when they are in the dative case. Let’s look at the dative case of some example nouns with the definite article (der, die, das), the indefinite article (ein, eine), and kein.     masculine feminine neuter plural dem Hund der Tante dem Haus den […]

The accusative case requires a declensional change with masculine nouns and most pronouns. Compare the differences between the nominative case and the accusative case with a masculine noun, a feminine noun, a neuter noun, and a plural noun with a definite article (der, die, das), an indefinite article (ein, eine), and kein. nominative […]

The nominative case identifies the subject of a sentence or a predicate nominative. The subject is the noun or pronoun that is carrying out the action of the verb in the sentence. For example: Johann küsst Ingrid.                    Johann kisses Ingrid.      […]

  In German, pronouns must have the same gender as the noun they replace. But remember that gender is determined not by reference to males, females, or inanimate objects but rather by the structure of the noun. Since some German masculine nouns are inanimate objects, the German masculine pronoun can mean it when […]

Singular nouns are those that describe one person or object: a boy, a girl, my house, their teacher, our party. Plural nouns describe more than one person or object: five boys, the women, a few windows, your parents, these flowers. In English, most nouns become plural by adding an -s. […]

For the most part, the gender of English nouns is based upon being male, female, or an inanimate object. German is similar only in a small degree. Many nouns that refer to males or females are masculine or feminine respectively. But this similarity to English soon ends. The gender of most […]

IS IT DASS OR DASS A unique feature of the German alphabet is the ß character. Found in no other language, part of the uniqueness of the ß — aka “eszett” (“s-z”) or “scharfes s” (“sharp s”) — is that, unlike all other German letters, it exists only in the lower case. This exclusivity […]