This word means 'grammar'. I bet you guessed that! It's pronounced 'gra-MAH-teek'.
Anyway, today is our first lesson on German grammar. Well, not really, since we've seen the articles (der, die und das) and stuff.
Heute (today), I'd like to show you more. On what? Cases.
DUNDUNDUN!
What are they? Where did they come from? And what are they for?
Schauen wir nach! (Let's have a look!)
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First and foremost, cases are one of the most important things in German and some other languages, like Russian.
It's difficult to explain, but basically, they show you where a noun is in a sentence and how it acts.
The noun could be the subject (nominative case), the object (accusative case), the indirect object (dative) and finally the noun that possesses something (genitive).
We won't be looking at the final two for a while! Phew!
That's because the first two are relatively easy.
Let's talk about the nominative case (Nominativ)
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The nominative case is the case that shows the subject, therefore the person doing the action.
I eat the apple.
I is the subject here, because it does the action of eating the apple.
The articles in German all change based on what case they are in, and fortunately you already know the nominative case of them!
Der, die und das!
Der Bruder ist 14-The brother is 14.
Die Tante heißt Anna-the aunt is called Anna.
Das Mädchen spielt Fußball-The girl plays/is playing football.
New word: Das Mädchen-the girl
Other examples of the nominative case:
Das ist meine Tante-This is my aunt.
Das sind meine Eltern-these are my parents.
Wo ist dein Bruder?-Where is your brother?
Next chapters: numbers 11-30, the accusative case and indefinite articles! :)
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German, the Sexy Way (UNDER RECONSTRUCTION)
Non-FictionHallo! This is Aolani (Alex) and you're about to learn Deutsch! I bet you already knew that word, pronounced 'Doy-tch', didn't you? If not, there's plenty more where that came from. Dialogues, grammar, song translations? All the way up to level B2...
