The accusative case has a nasty habit of tripping people up when they start learning German, and undermining any real sense of progress. It's easy to understand why. Imagine you’re just starting out ...

Ich gebe dem Mann das Buch. I give the man the book. Two nouns in a sentence - dative before accusative Ich gebe es dem Mann. I give it to the man. One noun, one pronoun in a sentence - pronoun goes ...

Adjectives are words used to describe nouns. You can use adjectives to add more detail to what you want to say, like the colour or size of something or what someone’s personality is like. So you want ...

Scholars believe concerning the infinitive with subject-accusative in Latin (1) that it originated in the type iube hunc abire, with the accusative as object of the verb and the infinitive a dative of ...