Word
Ich empfehle dir das neue Programm im Radio.
Meaning
I recommend the new program on the radio.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Ich empfehle dir das neue Programm im Radio.
in
in
dem
the; (masculine or neuter, dative)
neu
new
ich
I
Questions & Answers about Ich empfehle dir das neue Programm im Radio.
Why is it dir used here instead of dich?
The verb empfehlen governs the dative case for the recipient of the recommendation.
• dir is the dative form of du (“to you”).
• dich would be accusative, but empfehlen never takes an accusative for the person you recommend something to.
What case is das neue Programm and why isn’t it in the dative, too?
das neue Programm is the direct object of empfehlen, so it’s in the accusative case.
• Programming (what you recommend) = direct object → accusative.
• dir (to whom you recommend) = indirect object → dative.
Does empfehlen always require a dative object for the person you recommend to?
Yes. In German, empfehlen is one of those verbs that always takes:
– a dative object for the person receiving the recommendation
– an accusative object for the thing being recommended
How do I know that the adjective neue takes a single -e ending here?