German

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



 The accusative case is used for the direct object in a sentence.
 The direct object is "acted upon" by the subject of the sentence.
 For example in the sentence Thomas eats a banana,
 the subject is Thomas and the direct object is a banana.



 Luckily, the form of the accusative case is much simpler than the genetive case.
 As you can see in the table below, only the masculine form differs from the nominative case.


<table class="celled">
 <thead>
 <tr>
 <th></th>
 <th>Definite</th>
 <th>Indefinite</th>
 </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
 <tr>
 <th>Masculine</th>
 <td>Die Frau ißt den Apfel. The woman eats the apple.</td>
 <td>Die Frau ißt einen Apfel. The woman eats an apple.
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <th>Feminine</th>
 <td>Der Mann ißt die Banane. The man eats the banana.</td>
 <td>Der Mann ißt eine Banane. The man eats a banana.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <th>Neuter</th>
 <td>Der Hund beißt das Kind. The dog bites the child.</td>
 <td>Der Hund beißt ein Kind. The dog bites a child.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <th>Plural</th>
 <td>Die Frau ißt die Äpfel. The woman eats the apples.</td>
 <td>-</td>
 </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

The accusative case

adjective

sentence

pronoun

conjunction

interjection

preposition

adverb

verb

determiner

phrase

noun

article

Breakdown of Der Mann ißt eine Banane.