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These notes can be helpful for IGCSE, DSD1, and AS, like they did for me! I am a native English-speaker and these notes that I made for these three German courses all helped me achieve top grades. They are very easy to follow as they are clearly colour-coded. The notes contain adjective endings, verb conjugations, personal pronouns, prepositions, and different cases. This is extremely helpful for essay writing to impress an examiner with PERFECT grammar because you don't want to lose those easy marks! If your grammar in your essay writing is bringing down your score, make sure to use these notes to help you out!

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German grammar

● Nominative - active (do-er)
● Accusative - passive (sufferer)


SUBJECT VS. OBJECT OF A SENTENCE


THE DOG IS ALWAYS THE SUBJECT/ALWAYS THE BITER
Active voice
Der Hund beißt den Mann. = The dog is biting the man
● Der Hund - nominative, subject of sentence


● Den Mann - accusative, object of sentence
Passive voice
Den Mann beißt der Hund. = The dog is biting the man
● Der Hund - nominative, subject of sentence
● Den Mann - accusative, object of sentence

❌ Den Hund beißt der Mann. = The man is biting the dog. (does not make sense)

ADJECTIVE ENDINGS
1. Look for verb
2. Look for the subject - nominative (the do-er)
3. Look for object - accusative (direct object)/dative (indirect object)/ genitive (possessive)
a. **Look for the indirect object - dative
b. **Look for the possessive ‘object’ - genitive


Der ____ Mann schenkt der ____ Schwester seines Freundes einen ____ Ring zum Geburtstag und sie trinken
zusammen _______ Orangensaft.
The man gifted a ring to the sister of his friend and they drank orange juice together.

Der Sohn des Nachbarns schenkt der Schwester seines Freundes einen Ring seiner Großmutter.
The neighbour’s son gifted his friend’s sister his grandmother’s ring.


Genitive rules
For der, das:
- If one syllable: add -es
- If two+ syllables: add -s
- E.g Seines Vaters, seines Freundes

, Dative rules
- Giving something TO someone
- Hilft mir - give help TO ME
- Helfen, schenken, geben, antworten, schmecken, gefallen (gefällt mir), gehören,
- Doing something FOR someone
- Kannst du mir ein paar Kaugummi kaufen


ARTICLES
Definite articles
Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive

Masculine der den dem des

Feminine die die der der

Neutral das das dem des

Plural die die den der


Indefinite articles
Nominative Accusative Dative Genitive

Masculine ein einen einem eines

Feminine eine eine einer einer

Neutral ein ein einem eines

Plural N/A (meine etc) N/A N/A N/A




ADJECTIVE ENDINGS
Definite articles
Masculine Feminine Neutral Plural

Nominative -e -e -e -en

Accusative -en -e -e -en

Dative -en -en -en -en

Genitive -en -en -en -en

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