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Articles and nouns in accusative
Why do we need accusative?
It is not that easy to grasp that concept, depending on where you are from you might be familiar with cases. In English we would say:
She calls him. We do not say: She calls he.
Why is that so? Because we have a subject and an object. The subject is the doer (not always living!). The object is the one that receives the action. In our example, we have the caller and the receiver that gets called. The same happens in German, but with more varieties of course.
Sie isst den Kuchen. She eats the cake.
We have a subject (Sie), a verb (essen), and an object in accusative (den Kuchen).
The modification of the articles and nouns in accusative are the following:
der Baum ——- den Baum (male)
die Tomate ——- die Tomate (female)
das Museum ——- das Museum (neutral)
die Kinder ——- die Kinder (Plural)
Indefinite articles are the following:
ein Baum —– einen Baum
die Tomate —– eine Tomate
ein Museum —– ein Museum
xxx Kinder —– xxx Kinder
Same goes for negating nouns with "kein-"
Ich esse keinen Salat. (male)
Ich esse keine Suppe. (female)
Ich esse kein Steak. (neutral)
Ich esse keine Erdnüsse. (plural)
...and possessive articles
For declining those you need to not only check out if your noun is Accusative or Dative, but also pay attention to the owner (my, your, their…) and the possession (male, female, neutral or plural).
M F N PL
mein —- meinen meine mein meine
dein —- deinen deine dein deine
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Personal pronouns in accusative
Personal pronouns also change from nominative to accusative
Ich —– Mich
Du —– Dich
Er —– Ihn
Sie —– Sie
Es —– Es
Wir —– Uns
Ihr —– Euch
Sie —– Sie
When you see the sentence: “Ich liebe dich.” (I love you.), you know now immediately who is the subject and who is the object. Why? Because “I” is in nominative (= subject) and “you” is in accusative (= object). Awesome, right?
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