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SUMMARY:The Good Case: Dativ
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DESCRIPTION: Why Germany has a Dativ and what we use it for.
I know that many German learners might want to throw rotten tomatoes at me, but I have to confess: I actually like Dativ.Let me show you the beauty there is in this case. When I use it for an indirect object (see chapter 7), I actually want to say that someone benefits from what I am doing, which is why I call Dativ the “good case“. An example:Beate gibt mir die CD.
We have a subject (Beate) and two objects (me and the CD). The CD is in Akkusativ because it is the direct object, but mir is in Dativ because it is the indirect object. I benefit from Beate’s action: I get the CD. So in German, we have a special case for describing that we are giving something to someone. Beautiful, isn’t it?There are a few verbs that can only have an indirect object (i.e. a Dativ object). For example Folgen (to follow) and helfen (to help):Ich Folge ihm.Ich helfe dir.
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