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In the German language there are four cases: nominative, genitive, dative and accusative.
 In this lesson we'll go deeper into the genitive case.



 The genitive case describes the possessor of something else in the sentence.


<table class="celled">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th></th>
 <th>Definite</th>
 <th>Indefinite</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <th>Masculine</th>
 <td>
 die Hand des Mannes the hand of the man 
 der Geschmack des Kaffees the taste of the coffee
 </td>
 <td>
 die Hand eines Mannes the hand of a man 
 der Geschmack eines Kaffees the taste of a coffee
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <th>Feminine</th>
 <td>die Hand der Frau the hand of the woman</td>
 <td>die Hand einer Frau the hand of a woman</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <th>Neuter</th>
 <td>
 die Hand des Kindes the hand of the child 
 das Leiden des Lebens the suffering of life
 </td>
 <td>
 die Hand eines Kindes the hand of a child 
 das Leiden eines Lebens the suffering of a life
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <th>Plural</th>
 <td>die Hände der Kinder the hands of the children</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>


 Note that in the genitive case, the masculine and neuter forms behave the same,
 and the plural form behaves the same as the feminine form.



 In the genitive case, masculine and neuter nouns receive -es at the end,
 if they consist of a single syllable and don't end in an -e.
 Masculine and neuter nouns consisting of multiple syllables, or ending in an -e, only receive an -s at the end.



 For the feminine and the plural forms, the noun is the same as in the nominative form.

The genitive case

adjective

sentence

pronoun

conjunction

interjection

preposition

adverb

verb

determiner

phrase

noun

article

Hallo

People

Items

Adjectives

Adjectives 2

Story time

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes - Teil 1

Test

Emotions

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes (Fortsetzung - follow up)

Das gleiche vs. das Gleiche vs. dasselbe

Test part 2

Questions

Essen (food)

Combo Game Level 1

Combo Game Level 2

Combo Game Level Test

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes - Teil 4: Das Abenteuer

Dritter Teil: Aus dem Tagebuch des kleinen Mannes

Questions 2

Dative - Revision

Accusative - Revision

Dative - for the indirect object

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes Teil 5 - Pausenende

Word order

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes - Teil 7

The nominative case

möchten - dürfen - müssen - sollen - wollen

Let's count

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes -Teil 8

How much?

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes - Teil 9

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes -Teil 10

The accusative case

The dative case

colour -game

vermeiden - to avoid

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes Teil 11

Die Geschichte des kleinen Mannes - Teil 6

German 22 - The genitive case

Contributors

Question	Answer
the hand	die Hand
the hand of the man	die Hand des Mannes
of a - masculine, neuter	eines
the hand of a man	die Hand eines Mannes
the taste	der Geschmack
the taste of the coffee	der Geschmack des Kaffees
the taste of a coffee	der Geschmack eines Kaffees
the hand of the woman	die Hand der Frau
of a - feminine	einer
the hand of a woman	die Hand einer Frau
the hand of the child	die Hand des Kindes
the hand of a child	die Hand eines Kindes
the suffering	das Leiden
the suffering of life	das Leiden des Lebens
the suffering of a life	das Leiden eines Lebens
the hands of the children	die Hände der Kinder