German - nominative, accusative and dative cases

Some examples of different articles in different cases in German.

“The” in nominative, masculine form

Der

“The” in nominative, feminine form

Die

“The” in nominative, neuter form

Das

“The” in nominative, plural form

Die

All nominative gender articles for der

Der, die, das, die

What does nominative mean?

The subject of a sentence - the thing or person carrying out the verb or doing the action

Does the article change between nominative and accusative for all of the gender articles?

No, it only changes for masculine articles

“The” in accusative feminine form

Die

“The” in accusative masculine form

Den

“The” in accusative neuter form

Das

“The” in accusative plural form

Die

All accusative article forms for “the”

Den, die, das, die

All nominative article forms for ‘this’

Dieser, diese, dieses, diese

All accusative article forms for “this”

Diesen, diese, dieses, diese

Only the masculine article change based on the nominative and accusative cases

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What kind of object does the nominative case address?

The DIRECT object of a sentence (the object that the verb is being directly carried out on/receiving the verb eg. i read a book. Book is the direct object)

What kind of object does the dative case address?

The indirect object of the sentence - the person or thing that benefits from or is a recipent of the direct object (eg my grandfather read ME a book, I went on a run with my FATHER)

“Der” in the dative case (all genders)

Dem, der, dem, die

“Ein” in the dative case (all genders)

Einem, einer, einem, keinen