The Dative Case

You can download the transcript of the Dative podcast here:

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This page gives you information about the dative and:

determiners and adjectives,

personal pronouns,

prepositions and

verbs.

It also contains links to some learning resources to help you practice the dative, that have been created especially with German GrammarPod in mind.

Determiners & Adjectival Endings

The following tables show some common determiners and adjectival endings for the dative case.

The Dative Case of Some Common Determiners:

Dative Case Adjectival Endings:

Personal Pronouns

The following table shows personal pronouns in the nominative, accusative and dative and their English translations:

Prepositions

The following table shows a list of prepositions which mainly or always take the dative:

The following table shows prepositions that take the accusative or the dative and examples:

Verbs that take the Dative

The list below shows some of the more common verbs that just take the dative:

The following table shows a list of German verbs that (can) take both a dative AND an accusative:

Links

Drag and Drop - Determiners and Adjectives

This website lets you drag and drop determiners and adjectives and nouns to different places in a sentence. The program automatically changes the determiners and adjectives to match the gender and case of the noun. There are suggestions on the website about different ways to use the program.

Drag and Drop - Pronouns

This website lets you drag and drop pronouns and verbs to different places in a sentence. The program automatically changes the pronouns to case you need for that position. There are suggestions on the website about different ways to use the program.

Vocab Trainer

This link is to a vocab trainer that lets you practice my list of verbs that take the dative. It's been created by a German GrammarPod listener. You can use his list without signing up to the website. If you sign up, the website will also let you create your own lists.

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