9th September, 2009

Der Nominativ

posted 10 months ago

The nominative case is one of four grammatical cases for a noun in the German language. Basically it’s the noun that is doing something / the active part of the sentence, so it usually marks the subject of the verb.

Example:

Das Kind spielt Fußball. -> “Das Kind” nominative case.

Die Blume ist schön. -> “Die Blume” nominative case.

To find out what’s the subject of the sentence you can ask the question “Wer oder was tut etwas?” “Who or what is doing something?”

Example:

Das Kind spielt Fußball. -> Wer spielt Fußball? -> Das Kind.

Die Blume ist schön. -> Was ist schön? -> Die Blume.


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