hello my name is lutzy and today we will talk about a very important topic accusative order dative when do you have to use which and why i'm also gonna answer a question which you might have asked yourself before why do we have cases then we're gonna talk about the differences and functions of all those cases and of course we will talk about accusative and datif start with the first question why do we have these cases and therefore we're going to look at this sentence here denman best dear hunt bison bison is to bite so now the question is who bites who is it the man bites the dog or is it the dog bites the man and of course and logically yes it's correct it's the dog bites the man but how do i know this and that's why we need these cases when you look at the first article dean this is an accusative article that's a accusative article is a nominative article and after this video you will know that nominative the case nominative is always always for the subject and accusative is always an object and because the subject is the main character in a sentence therefore it's also here it's the main person so it's actually would be better if you say the hunt so why do we have cases the case shows the function of the noun in a sentence so actually we do have cases to help you [Music] that's that's the reason we just want to help you it doesn't look like this in the beginning i know i know but i hope one day i'm sure one day you will understand and i hope after this video you can also understand german cases a little bit better all right what functions what functions do we have we take a simple sentence hans schreibt hans scheidt hans is writing and there we have hans which is the subject and we have schweit which is the verb and this is already a perfect complete sentence now important here subject is always nominative so the nominative case is always for the subject nominative case is usually the first case you learn whenever you learn a new noun like for example their tish the flashe this is always the nominative so nominative is kind of the original form of the noun but here important nominative is for the subject all subjects are in nominative case now let's add something to the sentence let's add an object and we can say hans schreibt einen brief and is an object and let's add something more now we can also say who is he writing this letter to so we could say hans schreibt einen brief handshaped mia island brief he writes a letter to me and this mia is also an object so now we have it here a complete sentence with a subject verb and two objects and regarding the cases again subject is always nominative and the objects are either dative or accusative now to determine these cases we can ask questions and these are questions you might have seen or you might came across already for example for the subject you can ask ver ver is who or vasmas is what so ver mach who is doing something what is doing something then for accusative object we can ask and this vein is actually just also it's also who but inaccusative so who do you see or what do you buy and for dative we can ask veem and vim is also who but in dative case but here important is veem there is no vas and this has an important reason the dative case is usually only used for people for human beings to mention and accusative can be for people and things so again dative case is usually for people this is also something you have to memorize because whenever you have two objects and you have a person and a thing the chances that the dative and the person is indicative and the thing is in accusative is almost 100 so this is another way to kind of figure out which one of those object is here accusative and which one is dativ all right let's start with nominative and as i said nominative of course is always the subject let's do a sentence there man here the man is the man is happy now you can ask there just to make sure there is glickly who is happy or for a thing this is a computer and the computer is also happy but you can also say the computer is noi their computer is new and here you can ask vas ist noi what because it's a thing what is new their computer ist noi let's go to accusative when do you have to use acquisitive as i said before it's a object so the objects are either accusative or dative and object for accusative is often referred to as the direct object more about this later in this video but accusative is of course also used after specific verbs and this is important every verb every german verbs requires a specific case the good news here almost all german verbs do require accusative case so there is absolutely no need to make a list or to memorize or whatever accusative verbs or verbs which do require the accusative case the only thing you have to do is kind of the opposite you have to memorize which verbs are not accusative and one of those important ones which is also not dative it's actually nominative verb kind of resist sein assign is to be verb does to be of course it's a common verb that's why i mention it here and sein is one of those few verbs which do have two nominative so for example my father is my father is subject of course nominative and interior arts is also nominative because sign the verb sein has or can have two nominatives that's one exception and then there's of course the dative verbs but all the rest everything else is acquisitive so again there's no need to make a list there's no need to learn them whenever you are not sure always use accusative it's just the chances are very high it's the most common case for the verbs and of course accusative is also used after specific prepositions we will not talk about prepositions in this video this video is just about verbs we have a lot of videos about prepositions already you find links down in the description we have prepositions about dative and acquisitive everything is there let's do a an example we take the verb zee and z and is to see and see hen is of course like most verbs meet with accusative ich ich is in red so it's a subject i see i see but this is not complete this sentence is not complete you need here an object right so you can ask vein these two who do i see and i see this man here so i can see ich din man he see hi din man and here on top you have the articles in accusative important they only change in masculine so for masculine nouns you have to change the articles i'm not going to go into detail with the articles because we do have separate videos for each and every case where we go into detail with the articles find also links down in the description all right let's do an example with a thing ich brauje bauhren has to need and here the question again the sentence is not complete so you would ask vas why because of the verb let's do some examples the first one my father kauft einen apfel or a question two do you like to read books why is bisho inaccusative because lisen is plus accusative next case is the dative case again of course it's an object and referred to as a indirect object just talk about it this in a second and also as mentioned before dative case is used after specific verbs but you can see here it's only about 50 verbs in total not in total but the most common verbs we use or in daily life we use is only about 50. so it's kind of from a2 to b2 level you only need to learn 50 verbs which do require the dative case this is really not that much and i recommend you to do this to learn those dative verbs plus sein is nominativ and all the rest is acquisitive and you will are good to go all right after specific verbs and of course also after specific prepositions zombie spiel this verb is to help to help somebody now we have this woman here the frau subject now again this sentence is not complete so who is she helping whom so we have the question veem veem hilft zee she helps the boy or the child and again here you see above there are the articles in the dative case a little bit more complicated than the accusative ones but important you have to memorize those you really need to know those articles let's do an example with a thing build their compute is also a data verb and belong to now the computer you ask who who does who does this computer belong to again we heard their computer answer their computer their computer the computer belongs to the woman all right let's do some examples with the dative case for example the speed man the spirit felt the man likes the picture again red subject and deman is the object and it's indicative why because of the verb kefalen requires the dative case or max antvorted the also a verbs which requires the dative case and schmidt [Music] thus do you like my soup again schmecken is a dative verb therefore mine is supe is subject and deer is the object in dartif and you see here also it's always a person right dative that's what i said before the mandela reindeer usually or almost always if you have a dative object this object is a person now acquisitive datif is that possible of course you can have more than one object in a sentence and then it's usually you have a accusative object and a dative object for example we take the verb giben gabenheist to give and gaben is a verb which requires acquisitive and datif here again this some verbs they can have both and usually also acquisitive what i said before is for the object and that is for the person zombash bill peter that's the start of this sentence peter is this the subject peter gives now we want to know whom is she he giving something veem keep there it was answer peter gift so now we have the person now we also want to know what does he give this per this child and then we can ask vas vas keeped er and there we have the answer peter gibb dinkind einen apfel peter gibbet dem kind iron apfel and here you can see again the person is in and the object is in accusative or the sample example sentences we did in the beginning brief handshaked we have subject verbs and two objects and now you can see object here this is an acquisitive object or now it comes you can also say direct object so this is also a kind of help if like this usually accusative is similar like it's like a direct object and why direct object because it is connected to the subject the direct object is the connected directly to the subject so hans schreibt einen brief so he writes a letter so the brief is a direct object and then we have the indirect object which is the dative object and that's me and i'm kind of outside somewhere else i'm not so important there so i'm this indirect object so he writes a letter to me or you can also see this at this sentence we just did before peter gibbs team kind of so peter he has an apple in his hand and this apple is the direct object because it's connected to the subject and he gives this apple to the child so the child is at least in the beginning is somewhere far away and then he gives this apple to this to the child so the child is the indirect object and indirect object is always the dative case so just little quick as a summary to understand dative or accusative you have to know nominative of course you have to know that nominative is always the subject and then you need to know that the object is if you just have one object just one object then just go and check the verb in most cases as i said it's acquisitive so if you have just one object almost always it will be accusative case learn these verbs which require the dative case because these are the only ones if you have two objects like in this case here for example then usually the person is dative and the thing is accusative and that's how you can determine the different cases or especially accusative and that bonus tip there is one thing which might you know already i'm not sure but i just want to make sure for example this sentence here before we always did sentences in present tense mia hat einen laptop ki kauft this is a sentence in perfect tense imperfect and here we see we have two verbs because i always say it before right so it's like just go and check the verb and then you know if you have to use accusative or tatif but what if you have two verbs which one is the important one like in this example here in perfect tense we have haben which is a auxiliary verb and hilf's verb and we have ke kauft which is the pp of kaufen and this is actually the full or main verb does full verb and if you have to use acquisitive order dative always depends on the main verb so this is important and if you have for example a sentence like this in perfect then you need to go for the main verb which is usually the peepee so you see kaufman r plus acquisitive therefore it's mia hat einen laptop kickofft because laptop is masculine or another one mia khan dem kind nicht helfen again two verbs and here we have an example in with a modal verb a modal verb and this model verb they also kind of act like a auxiliary verb so the main verb again is helpful and helpful requires the dative case therefore the sentence is correct when you say mia come dim kint dativ nisht helfen if you want to go more into detail for each and every case i suggest you watch this playlist right here there you will find the video about each and every case in detail philanthropist too sharon i hope you learned something and i really hope to see you soon again in one of our next videos pistol next bye bye