Omg, the whole dativ, Akkusativ, Nominativ, Genitiv is starting to click because of your video. Vielen Dank. I will definitely watch more of your videos 😃
My head is spinning. My first language was German but when I was 13 we moved to the US and I had to learn English. Many years later and here I am trying to re-learn my native language as an adult. Instinctually, I seem to do a lot of conjugating and sentence structure automatically but learning why I do it and how it's done and what is grammatically correct, seems so hard now. Thank you for teaching each lesson in English to make understanding all these rules a bit easier.
Haha, good point. They are related and you do notice it here and there for sure. Notice, however, that those two sentences would, if translated exactly to German, violate the Before Section. English uses this for emphasis or a poetic twist because it can't do it by simply switching the order of subject and object. Slight exception: personal pronouns. Because English does still have some declension for pronouns, you may sometimes encounter switched subject and object when a pronoun is involved; you can at least understand "the dog sees her" vs. "the dog sees she" (though it is still an eccentric phrasing).
@@asifwakeelsiddiqui5655 ?.. of all things to care about… Id be willing to be you’re the guy who always failed in Highschool because they couldn’t help but stare at their teacher? Lol happy learning!
This was so helpful! Thank you. It would actually help a lot if these rules were taught near the beginning of German classes, instead of teaching strictly nominative forms for months. That leaves you feeling like you'll never be able to communicate in German.
I bet this is one of those things that you use instinctively in English and don't even realize it, but when you have to learn it in German, you don't realize you already know it. Let me give you an example. There, I just did.
Hi Katja, it was a pretty well-explained video. Learning German from a person with English background is always better in the beginning or up to B2. Learned a few things useful for explaining to my daughter. You might add in your list that starting making a sentence with articles and adjectives together with CASE, can accelerate the learning process. In B2 Stufe, a person has or should have this ability. But overall I liked your video and subscribed to see the other content. I have C1.
You are giving the impression that what you are going to explain is a kind of major revolution. I don't think so. They are the basic concepts any learner comes across. I've been teaching that for ages. But , of course, learning a language requires to put grammar aspects into a communicational context and this practice is a matter of years to practise.
I didn't get that impression. She already said from the very start that these are basic concepts, with the note that not all of these are not taught at the A1/elementary level (ie, "basic" is not the same as "elementary"). So, for those who do not wish to follow the A1, A2, B1, etc, framework levels strictly, this is a condensed, summarised form of what would be good to know.
I am thinking about German optimized for quick learning - simple (if incorrect) conjugations, simple (if incorrect) inflections - and I am pretty sure that is what happened to English. Imagine you are an English farmer in the year 880 CE, and a new neighbor from Denmark has just moved in. He can't speak English (really Old English if it's the year 880), but you have to communicate with him, so you speak a VERY simple version of English. You eliminate all the inflections, you eliminate all the genders except when referring to people or animals. So you are saying things to him comparable to "ME BRING PLOW TOMORROW" and he responds with "OKEY DOKEY, ME HAVE STRONG OX, US PLOW FIELDS FAST TOGETHER". That becomes the English that your new neighbor learns, and it gradually becomes the dominant version of English. (The English in formal documents would remain grammatically rigorous though.)
I think you may have mistakenly said that cases and declensions are the same. Grammatical case is a linguistics term regarding a manner of categorizing nouns, pronouns, adjectives, participles, and numerals according to their traditionally corresponding syntactical functions within a given phrase, clause, or sentence. In linguistics, declension is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. The inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation. tl;dr: Cases are the categorisation of words according to their function. Declension is the change of the words to show their function.
Learners will come across both terms (Fälle, Deklinationen), along with possibly "Kasus". While I love linguistic specifics, I don't find this distinction, let's say, useful in a beginner's context, which is why I usually condense these two terms into functional synonyms. The case causes the declension; both terms are commonly used interchangeably in German. I should probably just use the German terms, but I feel like that just makes it even more confusing for the people that are new to the terminology.
These are really good tips! I really like the overview of the cases; even if a person doesn't know how to do them correctly, just knowing they're there is a big jump. (The way they taught me German in school, long long ago, was to focus strictly on Nominativ and then slowly add one case after another.) ... would this be a bad rule of thumb? Until you know for sure, use "der" for Nominative, "den" for Akkusativ, "dem" for Dativ, and "des" for Genitiv? It pains me to even suggest it, but as you point out with verbs, the goal is to be understood, and that might provide a framework for understanding.
When I was first learning German (on my own), the cases were probably the most confusing part of the language for me. I had no context why "Den Fisch isst das Mädchen" or "Der Mensch gehört nicht in DIE Luft" were correct. I never really cared much about English grammar in school because I was already a native speaker. I realized that if I wanted to understand how to form correct sentences, I HAD to understand the German grammar. But even though I still don't speak German fluently (because I just don't have the chance to practice that much), I still understand the grammatical rules for the most part, and they're actually logical to me now. tl;dr: If you really learn the case system, and memorize which endings go in which case/gender, German will be significantly easier than you think it is. The long vocabulary words on the other hand... 😅 Oh, Genitive isn't hard at all either, this is how I always remember it: = OF THE z.B: Die Farbe des Autos ist rot. (The color OF THE car is red.)
I think I could add to the video that In the main clauses and modal verb structure, one verb (the modal one) is in second position and the other verb is in the last part of the main clause. Super helpful, thanks as always. I remember my prof. teaching me this in A1 LEVEL and It was a nightmare, but as you say it, if we start to encounter this type of structure from the beginning progressively they all start to make sense.
Die einzige Ausnahme für die Verbstellung bei untergeordneten Nebensätzen, die mir einfällt, bezieht sich eben auf die mit jeglicher Form von "haben" und einem Doppelinfinitiv, z.B., "Ich weiß nicht, ob ich es ohne deine Hilfe *hätte* machen können." Oder "Ich sehe, dass du dir die Haare hast schneiden lassen." Ich bin mir immer noch nicht sicher, woran diese Ausnahme liegt. 🤔
I'm going over declensions now in Arabic. Just got my Goethe B1 in German. To anyone who studies Arabic, throw out books that use Western terms. They don't actually apply very well and Arabs have been teaching grammar their own way for over 1500 years.
Great video, but it reminded me of how German cases offend me a bit because of the false promise that if you learn them, then you will be able to tell what case the verb is in from the article used, and the order in the sentence doesn't matter. That works for "Sie sieht den Hund" or "Die Frau sieht den Hund" but what about "Die Frau sieht die Katze"? Which one is the subject and which one is the object? For all but masculine nouns the article is the same in nominative and accusative. Sorry German Language but I call BS 🙂
....you said "DER NACHBARIN", I thought when it's female with "..'rin" we will use "DIE", then why you said DER NACHBARIN WHY NOT " DIE NACHBARIN "?? ....confusinggggg😅
I find that there is no substitute for memorizing lists of pronouns. I memorized these on a bus ride in 1981 and I still remember them: Akkusativ always: bis durch fuer gegen ohne um Dativ always: aus ausser bei mit nach seit von zu Akkusativ for motion and Dativ for location: an auf hinter in neben ueber unter vor zwischen Genitiv: I never memorized the list of Genitiv pronouns. Sorry. If you use a Genitiv pronoun, I will just give you a blank look.
Finally >>> I found the best language teacher for the German language who makes what is called complicated into simple things. Thank you.
Vielen Dank!
Omg, the whole dativ, Akkusativ, Nominativ, Genitiv is starting to click because of your video. Vielen Dank. I will definitely watch more of your videos 😃
Love this type of video! I wish I had known these rules when I started learning German. Makes learning a little bit simpler and more fun!
Interesting synopsis. I award you the title lehrer who is worth my time. Your videos will go nicely with my new Deutsches worterbuch.
My head is spinning. My first language was German but when I was 13 we moved to the US and I had to learn English. Many years later and here I am trying to re-learn my native language as an adult. Instinctually, I seem to do a lot of conjugating and sentence structure automatically but learning why I do it and how it's done and what is grammatically correct, seems so hard now. Thank you for teaching each lesson in English to make understanding all these rules a bit easier.
I was thinking on a lot of stuff to type here, but the best way to summarize is: awesome content!
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Thanks for simplifying the explanation and making German grammar a little less overwhelming.
❤Love you. Thank you for all useful German lessons. 👍
"Murder She Wrote", though. "The dog she sees." English is just an esoteric form of German, I'm convinced ;)
Haha, good point. They are related and you do notice it here and there for sure. Notice, however, that those two sentences would, if translated exactly to German, violate the Before Section. English uses this for emphasis or a poetic twist because it can't do it by simply switching the order of subject and object. Slight exception: personal pronouns. Because English does still have some declension for pronouns, you may sometimes encounter switched subject and object when a pronoun is involved; you can at least understand "the dog sees her" vs. "the dog sees she" (though it is still an eccentric phrasing).
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@@asifwakeelsiddiqui5655 Go back to the 17 th century.
@@asifwakeelsiddiqui5655 ?.. of all things to care about… Id be willing to be you’re the guy who always failed in Highschool because they couldn’t help but stare at their teacher? Lol happy learning!
Das war ganz gut, danke.
This was so helpful! Thank you. It would actually help a lot if these rules were taught near the beginning of German classes, instead of teaching strictly nominative forms for months. That leaves you feeling like you'll never be able to communicate in German.
Vielen Dank, Frau Katja.
Thank you Katja, really looking forward to this one! Grammar is a weakness of mine and this will help me sound less like a caveman in German.
Well put. It took me so long to figure out the accusative, dative difference.
I bet this is one of those things that you use instinctively in English and don't even realize it, but when you have to learn it in German, you don't realize you already know it. Let me give you an example. There, I just did.
Poder pensar en el idioma es super importante. Vielen Dank.
as always……. it’s perfekt😎
Where was this video all my life?
I really love this! Thank you for helping everyone.
Hi Katja, it was a pretty well-explained video.
Learning German from a person with English background is always better in the beginning or up to B2.
Learned a few things useful for explaining to my daughter.
You might add in your list that starting making a sentence with articles and adjectives together with CASE, can accelerate the learning process.
In B2 Stufe, a person has or should have this ability.
But overall I liked your video and subscribed to see the other content. I have C1.
Super erklärung, Vielen Dank🙃🙃
You're the best Katja! :)
You are giving the impression that what you are going to explain is a kind of major revolution. I don't think so. They are the basic concepts any learner comes across. I've been teaching that for ages. But , of course, learning a language requires to put grammar aspects into a communicational context and this practice is a matter of years to practise.
I didn't get that impression. She already said from the very start that these are basic concepts, with the note that not all of these are not taught at the A1/elementary level (ie, "basic" is not the same as "elementary"). So, for those who do not wish to follow the A1, A2, B1, etc, framework levels strictly, this is a condensed, summarised form of what would be good to know.
I am thinking about German optimized for quick learning - simple (if incorrect) conjugations, simple (if incorrect) inflections - and I am pretty sure that is what happened to English. Imagine you are an English farmer in the year 880 CE, and a new neighbor from Denmark has just moved in. He can't speak English (really Old English if it's the year 880), but you have to communicate with him, so you speak a VERY simple version of English. You eliminate all the inflections, you eliminate all the genders except when referring to people or animals. So you are saying things to him comparable to "ME BRING PLOW TOMORROW" and he responds with "OKEY DOKEY, ME HAVE STRONG OX, US PLOW FIELDS FAST TOGETHER". That becomes the English that your new neighbor learns, and it gradually becomes the dominant version of English. (The English in formal documents would remain grammatically rigorous though.)
I think you may have mistakenly said that cases and declensions are the same.
Grammatical case is a linguistics term regarding a manner of categorizing nouns, pronouns, adjectives, participles, and numerals according to their traditionally corresponding syntactical functions within a given phrase, clause, or sentence.
In linguistics, declension is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way of some inflection. The inflectional change of verbs is called conjugation.
tl;dr:
Cases are the categorisation of words according to their function.
Declension is the change of the words to show their function.
Learners will come across both terms (Fälle, Deklinationen), along with possibly "Kasus". While I love linguistic specifics, I don't find this distinction, let's say, useful in a beginner's context, which is why I usually condense these two terms into functional synonyms. The case causes the declension; both terms are commonly used interchangeably in German. I should probably just use the German terms, but I feel like that just makes it even more confusing for the people that are new to the terminology.
Thank you.
These are really good tips! I really like the overview of the cases; even if a person doesn't know how to do them correctly, just knowing they're there is a big jump. (The way they taught me German in school, long long ago, was to focus strictly on Nominativ and then slowly add one case after another.)
... would this be a bad rule of thumb? Until you know for sure, use "der" for Nominative, "den" for Akkusativ, "dem" for Dativ, and "des" for Genitiv? It pains me to even suggest it, but as you point out with verbs, the goal is to be understood, and that might provide a framework for understanding.
When I was first learning German (on my own), the cases were probably the most confusing part of the language for me. I had no context why "Den Fisch isst das Mädchen" or "Der Mensch gehört nicht in DIE Luft" were correct. I never really cared much about English grammar in school because I was already a native speaker.
I realized that if I wanted to understand how to form correct sentences, I HAD to understand the German grammar. But even though I still don't speak German fluently (because I just don't have the chance to practice that much), I still understand the grammatical rules for the most part, and they're actually logical to me now.
tl;dr: If you really learn the case system, and memorize which endings go in which case/gender, German will be significantly easier than you think it is. The long vocabulary words on the other hand... 😅
Oh, Genitive isn't hard at all either, this is how I always remember it: = OF THE
z.B: Die Farbe des Autos ist rot. (The color OF THE car is red.)
Du bist sehr shön
I think I could add to the video that In the main clauses and modal verb structure, one verb (the modal one) is in second position and the other verb is in the last part of the main clause.
Super helpful, thanks as always. I remember my prof. teaching me this in A1 LEVEL and It was a nightmare, but as you say it, if we start to encounter this type of structure from the beginning progressively they all start to make sense.
Die einzige Ausnahme für die Verbstellung bei untergeordneten Nebensätzen, die mir einfällt, bezieht sich eben auf die mit jeglicher Form von "haben" und einem Doppelinfinitiv, z.B., "Ich weiß nicht, ob ich es ohne deine Hilfe *hätte* machen können." Oder "Ich sehe, dass du dir die Haare hast schneiden lassen." Ich bin mir immer noch nicht sicher, woran diese Ausnahme liegt. 🤔
Ich kann das lesen, Spaß! Vielen Danke, dass du deine Gedanken teilst.
In English, called a "helping verb."
Could you teach us something about Bavarian dialect? (some words, phrases, etc.)
I could try, but I can in no way claim that I'm an expert on it, haha
I'm going over declensions now in Arabic. Just got my Goethe B1 in German. To anyone who studies Arabic, throw out books that use Western terms. They don't actually apply very well and Arabs have been teaching grammar their own way for over 1500 years.
Great video, but it reminded me of how German cases offend me a bit because of the false promise that if you learn them, then you will be able to tell what case the verb is in from the article used, and the order in the sentence doesn't matter. That works for "Sie sieht den Hund" or "Die Frau sieht den Hund" but what about "Die Frau sieht die Katze"? Which one is the subject and which one is the object? For all but masculine nouns the article is the same in nominative and accusative. Sorry German Language but I call BS 🙂
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Oh sweetheart !
I tried a lot , but I failed miserably.
unlocking or decoding German language or person is something hard for us .
I thought Germans don't mind being weird. LOL
I disagree. Genitive is the easiest case for English speakers because it is the only one we have in English.
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....you said "DER NACHBARIN", I thought when it's female with "..'rin" we will use "DIE", then why you said DER NACHBARIN WHY NOT " DIE NACHBARIN "??
....confusinggggg😅
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I find that there is no substitute for memorizing lists of pronouns. I memorized these on a bus ride in 1981 and I still remember them:
Akkusativ always: bis durch fuer gegen ohne um
Dativ always: aus ausser bei mit nach seit von zu
Akkusativ for motion and Dativ for location: an auf hinter in neben ueber unter vor zwischen
Genitiv: I never memorized the list of Genitiv pronouns. Sorry. If you use a Genitiv pronoun, I will just give you a blank look.
That would be prepositions but otherwise agreed, learning by heart or learning by observant exposure are basically the only ways to go with these.
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