GERM 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter Struktur 1.2: Nominative Case, Pronoun, Genitive Case

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: German Studies
• Course: GERM 1100
• Professor: Ruediger Mueller

Document Summary

German has 4 cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Cases are used to show the function of (pro)nouns in a sentence. In german the function of a word depends on its form more than its position. Der junge fragt den vater, der junge is the subject, den vater is a direct object. Der junge fragt den vater the boy asks the father. The lake is beautiful: forms of interrogative pronouns are wer (who) and was (what) Der see: nominative forms of definite article der, das, die (the) are familiar. Indefinite article ein (a, an) is the same for masculine and neuter nouns (has no ending), it also has no plural. Possessive pronouns mein (my), dein (your), and ihr (your, formal) follow the same pattern of ein and kein. Main onkel und meine tante wohen auch da. Wo wohnen deine eltern: nouns can be preplaced by personal pronouns. German uses three pronouns (es, sie, er) while english only uses one (it)