German grammar tips (Image made with Canva). The four ‘cases’ can be terrifying for people struggling with German, and particularly for learners who don’t have to worry about anything similar in their ...

Note that the only words that change their form in the accusative case are the masculine words, ie the der words. All the other forms are the same as the nominative case.

Case theory deals with a special property that all noun phrases are assumed to have. If they lack this feature, the sentence which contains the phrase is rendered ungrammatical. It is a theory of the ...