Lesson 7 - dative and accusative

Morning everybody,

Wir fahren mit den Bahn nach Berlin.
(We're going to Berlin by train)'

...just kidding , I'm not going to Berlin , at least not right now ;) But this sentence has "nach" in it , and this will be discussed in today's lesson.

Some vocabulary stuff before we start : 

so Berlin, train and other things somehow related to travelling..what is it all about ? 

Well as you probably remember, yesterday we looked at nominative and genitive briefly. Now you had dative in the vocabulary section in the brackets near the words "mit" and "nach". Which means that today we're gonna take a look at dative case using the examples mentioned above. Apart from that there's gonna be one example of the fourth case - accusative, but that won't be too much.

A quick glance at the definite article in dative : 

Why dative ? Well in that big ass table that we had a couple of lessons before, when examples to each case were given, some of the cases had their "typical words" for which you are sure that this particular case has to be used. And among those words , in dative there was "mit" also:)) 

So without further ado, here's the example : 

And let’s add last case to our "definite articles" table, and then take a quick look at an example related to it : 

And another example for the accusative: 

- Wo ist der Fahrrad ? 

- Wir nehmen das Fahrrad.

(-Where is the bicycle?)

(-We take the bicycle)

And now to the best part of the lesson -  exercises :)))
In the first exercise the definite articles (whether it's dative or accusative) have to be put:

Exercise 1/3

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and the answers are : 

Exercise 2/3 - translate the sentences  

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and the answers are : 

- Wir fahren mit dem Bus nach Berlin.

- Wir fahren mit der Bahn nach Berlin.

- Wir fahren mit dem Auto nach Berlin. 

- Wir fahren mit den Kindern nach Berlin.

Exercise 3/3 - Please translate

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and the answers are : 

- Wir nehmen den Bus.

- Wir nehmen die Bahn.

- Wir nehmen das Auto.

- Wir nehmen die Fahrrädder.

That was it for today's portion of German grammar. As usual, a German quote for today would be : 

Möge die Macht mit dir sein.
May the Force be with you.

   - aus dem Film Krieg der Sterne (Star Wars)

So, as Yoda said - may the Force be with you guys :) stay tuned and stay Germanizzzed!!:)

Cheers,
Bryvus