Dative case quiz

what is an direct object?

the object that is receiving the verb. In other words, for example: “I am cooking my friend a dinner”. What is being cooked is ‘the dinner’.

what is the subject?

the person who is doing the verb. For example: “I am cooking my friend a dinner”. The person who is cooking is ‘I’.

what is an indirect object?

The indirect object is the person who is receiving the verb. For example: “I am cooking my friend a dinner”. The person who is being cooked for is ‘my friend’.

Nominative case

Nominative case is about who or what is doing the action. For example: She is baking a cake.

Accusative case

Accusative case is about who the action is getting done to. This one will use words such as der, die, das…

Dative Case

Dative case is about who a person is doing something to. For example: “I throw a ball to my friend”

Masculine THE - dative

dem

feminine THE - dative

der

neuter THE - dative

dem

plural THE - dative

den

Gehoren

to belong to

zeigen

to show

geben

to give

wem

whom

helfen

to help

empfehlen

to reccomend

bringen

to bring