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Akkusativ (Artikel)
Lesson · 4 rules · about 5 min
German shows who does what with the article, and in the accusative only der-words change: der Hund becomes den Hund.
- 1Only masculine moves: der → den, ein → einen
- 2wen oder was? — ask the verb
- 3The verbs that always take it
- 4-n on the blue words
Why this matters
German marks the job a noun does in the sentence by changing its article — that is what a 'case' is. The nominative is the subject (the one doing); the accusative is the direct object (the one it is done to): Der Mann sieht den Hund — the man sees the dog. This is the first case beyond the nominative, and the friendliest: only the masculine changes. der becomes den, ein becomes einen; feminine, neuter and plural look exactly as they did. Every transitive verb — haben, sehen, kaufen, essen, brauchen, möchten — takes an accusative object, so you will use this in nearly every sentence from now on. Ask 'wen oder was?' (whom or what?) after the verb and the answer is the accusative.
bestimmt (den/die/das)
Ich sehe Mann.
I see the man.
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Akkusativ (Artikel) · A1.2
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