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1. The woman, whose picture are so famous, is coming tomorrow
2. My brother, whose wife died last year, is getting married again
1. Let's play chess instead of going out
2. He made so much money despite his other problems
3. Because of CoronaVirus there's a lockdown
4. During the Christmas holidays I'm staying at my grandparents
5. It's inside the bottle
6. He lives outside the village
1. The dog's possession lives here
2. The nephew's car is broken
3. The hospital stuff is net
4. Mother's phone isn't here
5. The manager of the hotels smokes a lot
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There is an important rule: Never use this structure in case there's a an article in the sentence!
Mrs. Puddles gives a tip!
1. The teacher's son is not working.
2. The man of the neighbour is there
3. The man of the house is strong
4. The people of the city celebrate
5. People's life is good
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Not sure when to put -s or -es ? One-syllable nouns get -es, two-/ + syllables nouns get -s. For weak masculine nouns it’s wise to use a dictionary and create a vocabulary diary where you note them down
Mrs. Puddles gives a tip!
Don’t forget! There isn’t any indefinite article for plural: “a drinks”, you might use the negative indefinite article “no drinks”
Mrs. Puddles gives a tip!
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des | eines keines |
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der | einer keiner |
⭐ Don’t forget about the relative clause between commas (the verb at the end):
✔️ We already learned the relative pronoun in the Nominative, Accusative and Dative cases, now let’s see their forms in the genitive case:
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Important tip!
In the informal speech, natives often talk casually using “von + dative ” rather than genitive :
Wir kaufen alle Bücher von seinem Lieblingsautor
We are buying all his favorite author’s books
✔️ Mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, ihr
✔️ They already express possession, so it’s no use for them in the genitive
✔️ These are very rare so instead use “von + dative ”
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Names
✔️ It’s the same as in English, without apostrophe :
Anas Mutter kocht pizza Ana’s mother makes pizza
✔️ One more thing:
➔The genitive masculine and neuter nouns get -s or es
➔The feminine genitive nouns and plurals don’t get any special ending
✔️Exception: weak masculine nouns get -n, -en instead of -s, -es
✔️ Note that only the masculine and neuter gets -s: des
✔️ The genitive for feminine and the plural are exactly the same as the dative: der
What is the Genitive and how can we relate it to English?
It’s the case of “possession” used for an object that belongs to someone/ something
The English equivalent is:
✔️ ‘s “the man’s house, the doctor’s son”
✔️ Of the “the man of the house” “the son of the doctor”
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Take your chance and try to guess what these sentences mean ! After, follow the structure to get a better understanding !
Mrs. Purrplexed wants to play!
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⭐ The easiest part: all of them get -en
“des jungen Mannes” , “der jungen Frau”, “des alten Hauses”
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Mr. Puddle: Gern geschehen!
Mr. Puddle: The first word or the subject is the determiner, so you figure out which is the subject, then the gender and hocus pocus: here is the relative pronoun
Mr. Meowrr: Oh, thanks!
Mr. Meowrr: I have two new favorite words: dessen and deren, but I’m sometimes confused… If I say “The car whose owner is my sister, was stolen” How do I figure out which is masculine or femnine?
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✔️ This is a special kind of practice, as the genitive case tends to be difficult. See the translations, follow the structure!
✔️ Keep in mind that there are only two forms for definite articles: des, der
✔️ The masculine and neuter nouns get -s, es
✔️ Look up in the dictionary in case you’re not sure if the masculine nouns are weak or not (they get -en, -n)
✔️ There are only two relative pronouns: dessen, deren
✔️ Genitive case has specific prepositions like Accusative and Dative
➔ Casual speech: wegen and trotz are with dative (natives often use it but grammatically is incorrect)
➔ Formal speech/ Written speech: wegen and trotz are with genitive (the correct case)
It isn’t unusual the fact that the genitive has specific prepositions like any other case:
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Genitive case is the fourth and fortunately, the last German case you learn, after a long journey of struggling through the grammar cases (Nominative, Accusative and Dative). Two or three centuries ago it was regularly used in the spoken language but nowadays people use it less and less, and some German natives assume it will disappear from the language. Nevertheless, it still holds an important position in the scientific and written language as well in the spoken language and it is used primarily for possession.
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