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Accusative Case Prepositions |
Prepositions are very useful words that relate one noun phrase to another in either time or space. They introduce noun phrases and they are said to govern grammatical cases, that is, the noun phrases after a preposition are in a specific case. We have seen many many prepositional phrases thus far in Cybergerman. Here are but a few. Can you guess which words are the prepositions?
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When used in complete German sentences, these prepositional phrases will connect two different noun phrases either in space (location) or in time. Read some examples.
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These phrases are composed of a preposition and a noun phrase. The noun phrase is in one of three grammatical cases: accusative, dative or genitive. Prepositions NEVER govern the nominative case.
Review the definite and indefinite articles in all the cases. Note the changes in their forms.
The Accusative-Case Prepositions
In German there is a group of five prepositions that ALWAYS govern the accusative case. Nouns that follow these five prepositions are ALWAYS in the accusative case. Here are these prepositions:
Objective: Choose the correct article for each blank.
When finished with this assignment try the next one dealing with the accusative case preposition für.