Revision: articles and personal pronouns in the dative
Take another look at the various articles and personal pronouns in the dative.
Articles
| Dative | |
| Masculine | dem |
| einem | |
| keinem | |
| meinem | |
| Feminine | der |
| einer | |
| keiner | |
| meiner | |
| Neuter | dem |
| einem | |
| keinem | |
| meinem | |
| Plural | den |
| - | |
| keinen | |
| meinen |
Personal pronouns
| Nominative | Dative |
| ich | mir |
| du | dir |
| er/es | ihm |
| sie | ihr |
| wir | uns |
| ihr | euch |
| sie | ihnen |
| Sie | Ihnen |
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Grammatical terms in German: der Dativ: In German there are four different forms or categories of nouns (cases) called Fälle or Kasus. As well as nominative and accusative, there is also dative. Nouns take this case, for example, when they follow certain prepositions or they are the object of a verb that takes the dative. The articles have the forms: dem/einem, der/einer, dem/einem, den/-. In the plural, an -n is often added to the noun. das Personalpronomen: Personal pronouns refer to people or things. The words ich, du and Sie are examples of personal pronouns. |