Akkusativ und Akkusativ Präpositionen

Akkusativ und Akkusativ Präpositionen

Accusative Case and Prepositions

Was ist das Subjekt?

The subject of your sentence is who or what is doing the verb.

Meine Mutter ist das Subjekt.

Right, my mom is the subject, because she is doing the verb - she is doing the baking.

Was ist das Objekt?

The object (also known as the direct object) is what is being "verbed" by the subject. For example, what is being baked?

You know in German there are 3 different word genders:

der (masculine)

die (feminine)

das (neuter)

Multiple Choice

For example, what word gender is "nose" in German?

• der Nase

• die Nase

• das Nase

Right: die Nase

It's feminine

Multiple Choice

What about "head" in German?

• der Kopf

• die Kopf

• das Kopf

Right: der Kopf

It's masculine ( Hint: always learn the "der, die, das" with new words)

Multiple Choice

Was ist "knee" auf Deutsch?

• der Knie

• die Knie

• das Knie

You've also learned to use "ein" with these words:

ein Kopf (masculine)

eine Nase (feminine)

ein Knie (neuter)

However, you notice that the masculine changes when it's the object of the sentence.

Meine Mutter bäckt einen Kuchen.

Ich esse den Kuchen.

Ich habe einen Kopf.

Hast du einen Bleistift?

Multiple Choice

What ending do the masculine articles (der, ein, mein) change to?

• den / einen / meinen

• die / eine / meine

• das / ein / mein

Right: den / einen / meinen

We call this the "accusative case". When a word is the object of the sentence, then it is in the accusative case. If it's masculine it changes to "den" or "einen" or "meinen". (Basically, it gets an "-en" ending)

Gut!

Now the next one won't be masculine, so you don't need to worry about changing the ending, just make sure it's the right gender.

Super!

Now for some prepositions

Was ist ein Präposition?

A preposition is a word that starts a prepositional phrase and tells details like where, when, or in what way things are happening.

Here are some English examples:

under, over, at, for, against, between, through, beyond, with, without, until, along, near...

In German, there is a set of prepositions the use the accusative case:

durch - through

für - for

gegen - against

ohne - without

um - around / at (time)

bis - until

pro - per (an amount)

entlang - along/down (street)