![]() ![]() I encourage you to look for free drills and exercises in the cases and identifying them online.Ĥ. It’ll also be a lengthy post, so feel free to take your time to work through it. It will require some work on your part though. At least that’s what I hope and aim to accomplish. In the end you’ll have a definite understanding and sure footing on the concept with this article. But the main scope and focus is on The Four Cases. It will get more complicated and nuanced than this, and it’ll touch slightly on other topics of German grammar that’ll need to be explored too (i.e. reflexive verbs, adjective endings, sentence structure, etc.). There are tons of them, and grammar nerds love to geek-out.ģ. If you want more technical detail or in-depth explanation, search for other articles about it on the web. ![]() ![]() So I’ll try and explain things as simply as possible. I’m not going into great detail and depth here. The idea is to make this concept less scary and intimidating. Hard numbers vary from splits of 60/40 to 90/10.Ģ. So when I say Rule of Thumb in this article, what I mean is that more often than not, the trick/tip/hint/pattern will lead to you being correct/sounding normal/not wrong/not grammatically incorrect more often than not. German can be a very inconsistent language, while at the same time being frustratingly consistent. Since it’s a more difficult topic to grasp, especially for the native english speaker, I think the sooner you get introduced to it and start wrapping your head around it, the better. I hope this guide will help make the Four Cases easier to grasp and start using.ġ. So I figured what I’d do is try and put a simplified guide together with some reliable rules of thumb to figure it all out. Something essential in order to make the leap from sounding like an A2 to a B2! I also look back on it now and realize that it’s the next level up in the German language. I remember very clearly being introduced to this topic by my german tutor at about A2/B1 level, and I remember very well having my mind blown by it. No, what came to my mind is what I think is the most difficult grammar concept for non-native speakers to grasp – Die Vier Fälle, the Four Cases. The golden key to figuring out genders for nouns? Sorry to say, but that’s a hell you never escape from – regardless of your level. Differences between an and auf prepositions? Nope. Adjective endings? Nah, there’s an easy trick to figuring that out here (the two question, article based approach – SUPER easy). So I started thinking about things that I found to be the most difficult to learn when I was learning German. I was thinking the other day about what I could possibly do to give them a hand in their learning efforts. They’re still at a relatively elementary level, so they’re still trying to get a grasp on the more basic grammar concepts of German that are different from English (genders/pronouns/conjugation, etc.) So, I have a couple of friends that are trying to learn German. ![]()
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