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Accusative

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Whenever something is being "done" in a sentence — Ich kaufe einen Kaffee. — you need the accusative. You'll learn the article and pronoun forms you use to say who or what an action affects.

  • Definite article, accusative
  • Indefinite article, accusative
  • Personal pronouns, accusative

Explanation

The accusative is the case for the object in a sentence — the person or thing that "receives" something: Ich sehe den Hund.

The good news: only the masculine word changes! der becomes den, ein becomes einen. Feminine, neuter, and plural stay the same.

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The question word wer also has an accusative form: wen. For example: Wen hast du gesehen?
GenderNominativeAccusative
masculineder / ein Hundden / einen Hund
femininedie / eine Fraudie / eine Frau
neuterdas / ein Kinddas / ein Kind
pluraldie Kinderdie Kinder

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