#GERMAN GRAMMAR POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS PDF#

Like most “proper” forms of address (“sir/ma’am” in English, vous in French) it’s no longer used in every situation where the teachers and textbooks suggest that it is. When to use the Sie form rather than du or ihr is one of the most common questions for German learners, and there's no simple answer. Indeed, saying 'der Hund meiner' instead of 'mein Hund' would be just as awkward as saying 'the dog of me” in English. We've included them mainly because they give you the stems of the possessive articles ( mein, dein, sein, etc.) that are used instead (see II.3). The genitive forms (last row) are grayed out because they're almost never used. These “Sie” forms share the same conjugation as the third person plural, but are capitalized. German adds a formal “you” (Sie), which is both singular and plural.German has a second person plural (ihr) that’s different from the singular (du) English uses 'you' for both, except in casual/regional plurals like “y’all” or “you guys.'.Old English did have this distinction, but even by the time of Chaucer it was gone (e.g. German pronouns often distinguish between the accusative and the dative case, while English pronouns never do.Here are the personal pronouns in English, which hopefully look familiar:Īs you can see from the table below, German pronouns are a little more complicated. But this time it should be slightly more familiar, as English has kept some of these distinctions too. accusative, dative and genitive prepositions This exercise justĪsks you to choose the appropriate case for each preposition.Like articles and adjectives, pronouns in German vary according to gender and case.pronouns and possessive articles This exercise includes the above mnemonic hints to help you learn these words where there is such a hint, you can click on “Hilfe” to see it.Übungen Ĭlick here to do all these exercises in sequence (use the “weiter” button to get from one to the next), or click on the links below to pick out individual ones. The feminine singular “ihr” looks and sounds roughly like its English counterpart “her.” The 3rd person plural form is also “ihr” except in the Dative, the “she” pronouns are always the same as the “they” pronouns For the possessives, note “mein,” “dein” and “sein” rhyme.For the “we” forms, note nominative “wir” sounds like English “we,” and accusative and dative “uns” sounds like English “us.”.

The third person singular and plural pronouns roughly rhyme with the corresponding forms of “der/das/die” in the Nominative, Accusative and Dative: er der, ihn den, ihm dem, sie die, sie die, ihr der, es das, es das, ihm dem, and in the 3rd person plural sie die, sie die, ihnen den (sort of).To remember the accusative prepositions, use the acronym “O Fudge”, or ask your instructor about chanting “Durch-für-gegen-ohne-um, Deutsch zu lernen ist nicht dumm.” For the dative prepositions, sing “Aus-außer-bei-mit, nach-seit, von-zu” to the tune of the “Blue Danube” waltz, or think of the touching love poem “Roses are red, violets are blue, aus-außer-bei-mit, nach-seit, von-zu.”.For the Genitive, the -s and -r endings are like the endings of English “his” and “her.”.For the Dative, the -m and -r endings are like the endings of English “him” and “her” as in “for him” and “for her.”.Once you know the nominative forms of der/das/die, you essentially know the accusative forms, which are the same except for the masculine accusative, where “der” changes to “den.”.Note the ein-word endings are the same as the der/das/die endings, except in the masculine and neuter nominative and the neuter accusative, where the ein-words have no ending.(=>meines, deines, seines, ihres, their, unseres, eures + (e)s) (=>meinen, deinen, seinen, ihren, their, unseren, euren + n) (=>meiner, deiner, seiner, ihrer, their, unserer, eurer) (=>meinem, deinem, seinem, ihrem, their, unserem, eurem) (=>meinen, deinen, seinen, ihren, their, unseren, euren)Īus, außer, bei, mit, nach, seit, von, zu (=>meine, deine, seine, ihre, their, unsere, eure) (=>mein, dein, sein, ihr, their, unser, euer) Learn the two charts on this page well, and everything else you do in German will become a lot easier for you!ĭer/das/die and Ein-word endings (including endings for the possessive adjectives mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer)

#GERMAN GRAMMAR POSSESSIVE PRONOUNS PDF#

Basic Chart of Forms of der/das/die, ein-words, Pronouns Click the link for a PDF of the “Basic Chart” (also including the two-way prepositions) that will print on one page!

German grammar possessive pronouns