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| 1. What is the genitive case in German? |  |
Ans. The genitive case is one of the four grammatical cases in the German language. It is used to indicate possession or ownership and is often translated to English using the preposition "of" or the possessive pronoun "his" or "her."
| 2. When do we use the genitive case in German? | |
Ans. The genitive case is primarily used to show possession or ownership. It can also be used to indicate relationships, origin, or when expressing indefinite quantities. In some instances, the genitive case can also be used with certain prepositions.
| 3. How do we form the genitive case with definite articles in German? | |
Ans. In German, the definite articles change their forms in the genitive case. The masculine and neuter definite articles "der" and "das" change to "des" and "des" respectively. The feminine definite article "die" changes to "der," and the plural definite article "die" changes to "der."
| 4. Can you provide examples of the genitive case with definite articles in German? | |
Ans. Certainly! Here are some examples: - The book of the man: Das Buch des Mannes. - The house of the woman: Das Haus der Frau. - The cars of the students: Die Autos der Studenten.
| 5. Are there any exceptions or irregularities in the formation of the genitive case with definite articles in German? | |
Ans. Yes, there are a few exceptions and irregularities in the formation of the genitive case with definite articles in German. For example, the masculine and neuter nouns that end in "-s" or "-es" do not have an additional "s" in the genitive case. Instead, they simply add an apostrophe. Additionally, some masculine and neuter nouns have irregular genitive forms. It is important to consult a grammar resource or dictionary to learn the specific forms for these exceptions.
Text Transcript from Video
hi guys how to loiter welcome back to
German with Jenny in this video I want
to introduce the genitive case to you
and I will start by explaining how to
use the genitive case with definite
articles so dia D and dusts this is a
rather complex topic so I would suggest
you take out your notebooks and take
some careful notes today there is a link
below this video that will take you
directly to the exercises so once you've
watched this video make sure to do the
exercises you can also follow me on
German with janie calm and be notified
whenever I publish new exercises let's
get started
the most important thing that you need
to know is that the genitive shows
possession in English it's shown by the
word of or by adding an apostrophe to
show position let's take a look at some
examples in English you would say the
woman's handbag or the handbag of the
woman and in German you say Dee hunt
Tasha deaf/hoh daehan Tasha
de Foix in colloquial speech most of the
time you will hear daehan Tasha fond
ethical but it's very important that
when you write a text especially in a
formal exam it's very important that you
use the genitive I would advise that you
learn both forms so in spoken language
it's much more natural to use D hunter
chiffon deaf cow but in written language
I would suggest that you write daehan
Tasha DF wow it sounds much better it's
grammatically correct and it's the way
that you should write a text next
example the girls doll or the doll of
the girl in German de Papa diss missions
de Papa diss missions or in colloquial
speech de Papa Fonda midian next example
the father suit or the suit of the
father in German Diane sook diss fattest
Daren sook diss fattest or colloquially
Diane sook fandom fatah next example the
children's clothes or the clothes of the
children in German the unseasoned
akin de dion season day kinda or
colloquially the unseasoned fondant King
done many of you might ask yourselves
uncie Zack and I've never heard that
before this is also actually very
colloquial if you want to say this in a
more formal way you would say Dee Clyde
on deck in de another colloquial way of
saying it would be declare mutton deck
in de now let's take a look at how the
genitive is formed and I want to start
by introducing definite articles to you
you already know the definite articles
in the nominative case let's take a look
at these examples dia Fatah the Father
Dafoe the woman does auto the car D
kindda the children the genitive forms
would be dis fat ass which means of the
father dia
Frau which means of the woman does autos
which means of the car and dia kinnda
which means of the children so you can
see that data changes to disks in the
masculine form D changes to dia in the
feminine form thus changes to disks in
the neutral form and D changes to data
in the plural form but you can also see
two other changes you can see that we
add an S in the masculine form at the
end of the noun and we do the same in
the neutral form so we add an S at the
end of the noun adding an S at the end
of the noun happens when there is more
than one syllable let's take a look at
some more examples defens iya becomes
dis fanciest de lumpa becomes de l'homme
/ das bad it's AMA becomes Despard
simha's and d Xhosa becomes deer Xhosa
more examples deer Belgium nominative
dispel chums genitive
dish tossa nominative - casa genitive
does Fenster nominative does fenced us
genitive deaf emelian nominative deaf
emilian genitive when the rules of n
declination apply we have to add an N or
an e n this means that de Ayana becomes
this human in the genitive case you can
see that the plural doesn't change
except for the article so di she Tecton
becomes dia as she Tecton more examples
damage nominative dis mention genitive D
kundan nominative dia kundan genitive in
many cases you add an es at the end of
the noun if the noun only has one
syllable such as in these examples
dear bomb nominative dis bombers
genitive does land nominative dis landis
genitive more examples davic nominative
dis Vegas genitive the skinned
nominative dis kindess genitive nouns
ending in s CH and st often add es dirt
ich becomes just Isha's dust fest
becomes dis festus nouns ending in s SS
s set z TZ and CHS add an es def loose
becomes dis flosses does house becomes
dis houses davits becomes dis Vince's
does glass becomes this glasses there
folks becomes this focuses das Schloss
becomes just flosses nouns ending in NIS
add SES at the end does a gay penis
becomes dis a goodnesses does fair
headless becomes dis fairness when you
use first names you just add an S to the
first name to show possession such as in
these examples on a spool Anna's book or
Cal's fowl Carl's wife if the name
already ends in S or Z an apostrophe is
added Johannes pool Heinz hoot
geographical names without articles also
add an S D help deutschlands is Belen
the capital of Germany is Berlin
franchise Kristin isn't one - on the
coasts of France are beautiful via
Guinean douche D announced at London's
we walked through the downtown area of
London however if the geographical name
has an article you cannot just add an S
such as in this example
das Vasa dare do now fleeced douche Dana
to a pack oboro-dono the water of the
Danube flows to the Natural Park Omaha
dunno
SoDo now has a feminine article D do now
so we have to transform it into D I do
now in the genitive case yet said Iran
tested oil vision now it's your turn
test your knowledge I will give you the
nominative forms of these nouns and then
you have to come up with the genitive
forms dia hunt the dog D cuts the cat
does fit the horse D Tioga the animals
and I will give you a couple of seconds
to think about it
these are the genitive forms does hundis
of the dog dia qotsa of the cat does
Faris of the horse they are tiara of the
animals on vitae gates death sook the
Train D Tata the daughter does telephone
the phone d shul on the school's once
again I'll give you a couple of seconds
to think about it
the genitive forms are to sugus of the
train their Tata of the daughter this
telephones of the phone
they are Xuan of the schools vitae gates
deerforce the foot the at nose the
peanut does problem the problem did a
tie in the files
the genitive forms are does forces of
the foot diagnose of the peanut this
problems of the problem they are done of
the files in the following examples
you're going to have to correct the
mistakes so what I did is I always use
the nominative case where I should have
used the genitive case let's take a look
at the first sentence Agia mitten wound
Dan Napa spat serum how would you say
this correctly
in actual fact there are two correct
answers you could say 'i'm it Tim hunt
does not ban spaetzle which means I am
walking the neighbor's dog and this
would just be one neighbor or you could
say Ishqiya madam hunt deer knock punch
fat Ceylon so I'm walking the dog of
more than one neighbor so it might be
the couple's dog and those are two
people so we would say dear knock bun
next one it is mitten moto got diamond
Becca Fagin so he drove away with a
man's motorbike how would you say this
correctly
the correct sentence would be a estimate
Emoto hardest manners
Becca fathom
Maria fed a Montague
Madame Otto demoted so Abbott so Maria
is going to work on Monday with the
mother's car how would you say this
correctly in German
the correct sentence would be Maria FET
a moontak met him out Rudy Mota saw
Abbott
next example zoo fiash spirit medium
speed sock Auto Deb Buddha so we're
trying to say
Sophia is playing with the brothers toy
car how would you say this correctly in
German the correct answer would be
Sophia spilled medium speed Sark Auto
does pulled us
the ashy Tecton and Vasanth in giunta's
duska boiler so the architects are
designing the layout of the building how
would you say this correctly in German
the correct sentence would be the ashy
Tecton and Vasan Dean Wonka's disk
abiders
d bazooka - las covenanted scatter so
the visitors of the castle are buying a
ticket or literally an entrance ticket
how would you say this correctly in
German the correct sentence is d bazooka
- losses coffin eine ein twits cata last
example there Borden's e dare Kimsey de
de Zeeuw on stem musica heaven food
insurance tansy and Deutschland how
would you say this correctly
the correct sentence would be Deb or
tansy dare Kimsey adazi aunt dem mu busy
google ensued and shun stands in
deutschland alright I hope that wasn't
too complicated there's a link below
this video that will take you directly
to the exercises so you can practice
everything that we learned today if you
like my videos and you want to support
me you can do that on patreon.com slash
German with Jenny where you can make a
monthly contribution just $1 a month is
already a huge help if you decide to
support me you'll have access to all the
scripts of my videos the mp3 and the mp4
files and you will also be able to
listen to my new podcast series if you
want to review the other cases you can
take a look at my playlist right here
which covers the dative case the
nominative case and the accusative case
and I will also be adding the videos on
the genitive case in the near future
feel and act as a ho de vive apps
Bissell makes the model choose
German with Jenny in this video I want
to introduce the genitive case to you
and I will start by explaining how to
use the genitive case with definite
articles so dia D and dusts this is a
rather complex topic so I would suggest
you take out your notebooks and take
some careful notes today there is a link
below this video that will take you
directly to the exercises so once you've
watched this video make sure to do the
exercises you can also follow me on
German with janie calm and be notified
whenever I publish new exercises let's
get started
the most important thing that you need
to know is that the genitive shows
possession in English it's shown by the
word of or by adding an apostrophe to
show position let's take a look at some
examples in English you would say the
woman's handbag or the handbag of the
woman and in German you say Dee hunt
Tasha deaf/hoh daehan Tasha
de Foix in colloquial speech most of the
time you will hear daehan Tasha fond
ethical but it's very important that
when you write a text especially in a
formal exam it's very important that you
use the genitive I would advise that you
learn both forms so in spoken language
it's much more natural to use D hunter
chiffon deaf cow but in written language
I would suggest that you write daehan
Tasha DF wow it sounds much better it's
grammatically correct and it's the way
that you should write a text next
example the girls doll or the doll of
the girl in German de Papa diss missions
de Papa diss missions or in colloquial
speech de Papa Fonda midian next example
the father suit or the suit of the
father in German Diane sook diss fattest
Daren sook diss fattest or colloquially
Diane sook fandom fatah next example the
children's clothes or the clothes of the
children in German the unseasoned
akin de dion season day kinda or
colloquially the unseasoned fondant King
done many of you might ask yourselves
uncie Zack and I've never heard that
before this is also actually very
colloquial if you want to say this in a
more formal way you would say Dee Clyde
on deck in de another colloquial way of
saying it would be declare mutton deck
in de now let's take a look at how the
genitive is formed and I want to start
by introducing definite articles to you
you already know the definite articles
in the nominative case let's take a look
at these examples dia Fatah the Father
Dafoe the woman does auto the car D
kindda the children the genitive forms
would be dis fat ass which means of the
father dia
Frau which means of the woman does autos
which means of the car and dia kinnda
which means of the children so you can
see that data changes to disks in the
masculine form D changes to dia in the
feminine form thus changes to disks in
the neutral form and D changes to data
in the plural form but you can also see
two other changes you can see that we
add an S in the masculine form at the
end of the noun and we do the same in
the neutral form so we add an S at the
end of the noun adding an S at the end
of the noun happens when there is more
than one syllable let's take a look at
some more examples defens iya becomes
dis fanciest de lumpa becomes de l'homme
/ das bad it's AMA becomes Despard
simha's and d Xhosa becomes deer Xhosa
more examples deer Belgium nominative
dispel chums genitive
dish tossa nominative - casa genitive
does Fenster nominative does fenced us
genitive deaf emelian nominative deaf
emilian genitive when the rules of n
declination apply we have to add an N or
an e n this means that de Ayana becomes
this human in the genitive case you can
see that the plural doesn't change
except for the article so di she Tecton
becomes dia as she Tecton more examples
damage nominative dis mention genitive D
kundan nominative dia kundan genitive in
many cases you add an es at the end of
the noun if the noun only has one
syllable such as in these examples
dear bomb nominative dis bombers
genitive does land nominative dis landis
genitive more examples davic nominative
dis Vegas genitive the skinned
nominative dis kindess genitive nouns
ending in s CH and st often add es dirt
ich becomes just Isha's dust fest
becomes dis festus nouns ending in s SS
s set z TZ and CHS add an es def loose
becomes dis flosses does house becomes
dis houses davits becomes dis Vince's
does glass becomes this glasses there
folks becomes this focuses das Schloss
becomes just flosses nouns ending in NIS
add SES at the end does a gay penis
becomes dis a goodnesses does fair
headless becomes dis fairness when you
use first names you just add an S to the
first name to show possession such as in
these examples on a spool Anna's book or
Cal's fowl Carl's wife if the name
already ends in S or Z an apostrophe is
added Johannes pool Heinz hoot
geographical names without articles also
add an S D help deutschlands is Belen
the capital of Germany is Berlin
franchise Kristin isn't one - on the
coasts of France are beautiful via
Guinean douche D announced at London's
we walked through the downtown area of
London however if the geographical name
has an article you cannot just add an S
such as in this example
das Vasa dare do now fleeced douche Dana
to a pack oboro-dono the water of the
Danube flows to the Natural Park Omaha
dunno
SoDo now has a feminine article D do now
so we have to transform it into D I do
now in the genitive case yet said Iran
tested oil vision now it's your turn
test your knowledge I will give you the
nominative forms of these nouns and then
you have to come up with the genitive
forms dia hunt the dog D cuts the cat
does fit the horse D Tioga the animals
and I will give you a couple of seconds
to think about it
these are the genitive forms does hundis
of the dog dia qotsa of the cat does
Faris of the horse they are tiara of the
animals on vitae gates death sook the
Train D Tata the daughter does telephone
the phone d shul on the school's once
again I'll give you a couple of seconds
to think about it
the genitive forms are to sugus of the
train their Tata of the daughter this
telephones of the phone
they are Xuan of the schools vitae gates
deerforce the foot the at nose the
peanut does problem the problem did a
tie in the files
the genitive forms are does forces of
the foot diagnose of the peanut this
problems of the problem they are done of
the files in the following examples
you're going to have to correct the
mistakes so what I did is I always use
the nominative case where I should have
used the genitive case let's take a look
at the first sentence Agia mitten wound
Dan Napa spat serum how would you say
this correctly
in actual fact there are two correct
answers you could say 'i'm it Tim hunt
does not ban spaetzle which means I am
walking the neighbor's dog and this
would just be one neighbor or you could
say Ishqiya madam hunt deer knock punch
fat Ceylon so I'm walking the dog of
more than one neighbor so it might be
the couple's dog and those are two
people so we would say dear knock bun
next one it is mitten moto got diamond
Becca Fagin so he drove away with a
man's motorbike how would you say this
correctly
the correct sentence would be a estimate
Emoto hardest manners
Becca fathom
Maria fed a Montague
Madame Otto demoted so Abbott so Maria
is going to work on Monday with the
mother's car how would you say this
correctly in German
the correct sentence would be Maria FET
a moontak met him out Rudy Mota saw
Abbott
next example zoo fiash spirit medium
speed sock Auto Deb Buddha so we're
trying to say
Sophia is playing with the brothers toy
car how would you say this correctly in
German the correct answer would be
Sophia spilled medium speed Sark Auto
does pulled us
the ashy Tecton and Vasanth in giunta's
duska boiler so the architects are
designing the layout of the building how
would you say this correctly in German
the correct sentence would be the ashy
Tecton and Vasan Dean Wonka's disk
abiders
d bazooka - las covenanted scatter so
the visitors of the castle are buying a
ticket or literally an entrance ticket
how would you say this correctly in
German the correct sentence is d bazooka
- losses coffin eine ein twits cata last
example there Borden's e dare Kimsey de
de Zeeuw on stem musica heaven food
insurance tansy and Deutschland how
would you say this correctly
the correct sentence would be Deb or
tansy dare Kimsey adazi aunt dem mu busy
google ensued and shun stands in
deutschland alright I hope that wasn't
too complicated there's a link below
this video that will take you directly
to the exercises so you can practice
everything that we learned today if you
like my videos and you want to support
me you can do that on patreon.com slash
German with Jenny where you can make a
monthly contribution just $1 a month is
already a huge help if you decide to
support me you'll have access to all the
scripts of my videos the mp3 and the mp4
files and you will also be able to
listen to my new podcast series if you
want to review the other cases you can
take a look at my playlist right here
which covers the dative case the
nominative case and the accusative case
and I will also be adding the videos on
the genitive case in the near future
feel and act as a ho de vive apps
Bissell makes the model choose
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