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 ...

If dual-case prepositions describe movement from one place to another, they are followed by the accusative case. Otherwise, they take the dative. Ich stecke die Schuhe unter das Bett. – I put the ...

Case theory deals with a special property that all noun phrases are assumed to have. If they lack this feature, the sentence which contains the phrase is rendered ungrammatical. It is a theory of the ...

Note that the only words that change their form in the accusative case are the masculine words, ie the der words. All the other forms are the same as the nominative case.

Case theory deals with a special property that all noun phrases are assumed to have. If they lack this feature, the sentence which contains the phrase is rendered ungrammatical. It is a theory of the ...