fuck it, i don't know where else to ask.
basically im learning German. the thing is, I just can't wrap my head around the accusative and dative cases. i don't fully grasp the concept of the two, simply because they seem like the exact same thing to me. a simple explanation would be nice.
>>51782459
http://germanforenglishspeakers.com/nouns/case/
>Angloshits in charge of learning a real language
I give you the book.
you = dative
the book = accusative
>swedish has some accusatives
>I have no idea what they are
>>51783464
swedish doesn't use cases youre saying?
>>51783464
Back to school, nigger.
>>51782459
>Auf frage "Wo, da" kommt der dativ. Akkusativ auf "Wohin"
I remember something like that from my German teacher in highschool. Basically when talking about where something is going TO, use accusative, when asking where they ARE, use dative.
>>51782459
>i don't know where else to ask.
the entire internet is at your disposal and you don't know where else to ask?
>>51785873
>the internet isat your disposal
Yeah, i know. I used the whole web it felt like. I just wanted a simple answer for a simple man
>>51782834
It's really as simple as this, and just learn which prepositions go with which cases.
>>51786037
Yeah, it was more of the way everyone described it that confused me. Trying to understand what a case is for the first time is very hard to grasp.
i fuck you -accusative
i fuck for you -dative
I sent him a card - card is acc, him is dative.
I gave my lunch to my brother - brother is dative, lunch is acc.
I read a book - a book is acc.
I play football - football is acc
Dative is indirect object, accusative is direct object.
>>51787223
Expanding on this - if adding "to" before the object still makes sense, it is provably dative. If there are 2 objects, and you can drop one and still have a sentence, the droppable one is probably dative.
IE, in "she was sendng a letter to her sister", you can say "she was sending a letter" but not "she was sending to her sister".
I suppose you could say "she was writing a letter to her sister" can drop the letter and be "she was writing to her sister", but that is colloquial and the letter is still implied. I hope that makes sense?
>>51782787
This. It's like watching little kids, playing in a puddle.
>>51787954
>unironically being this arrogant
But hey whatever you have to do to get through the day, it must be hard being a socially retarded teutonic ape
>>51788178
>calling me a teutonic ape , when his language is so primitive
Oh please, contain your butthurt.
Just use always "mir" & "dir" instead of "mich" &"dich".Then tell the people you are from Berlin.
Problem jesolved
