Der Clown schenkt jedem Kind eine kleine Mütze aus Papier.

• schenken means “to give (as a gift).”
• It’s different from geben (“to give” in general) because schenken implies gifting something.
• Grammatically, schenken requires two objects:
  • A dative object for the recipient (to whom you give)
  • An accusative object for the gift itself
• In third-person singular (er/sie/es), schenken is conjugated as schenkt.

• Because with schenken, the person who receives the gift must be in the dative.
• jedem is the dative form of jeder (“each/every”) for masculine/neuter nouns.
• Kind is a neuter noun, so jeder→jedem in the dative singular.

• The gift itself (Mütze) is the direct object of schenkt, so it’s in the accusative case.
• Mütze is feminine, so the indefinite article in accusative singular is eine.

Because of German adjective declension rules after an indefinite article in the accusative feminine singular:
• Feminine accusative strong ending is -e
• Pattern: eine (article) + kleine (adjective) + Mütze (noun)

• aus means “out of” or “made of” when describing material.
• Prepositions like aus always take the dative case.
• Papier is a neuter noun; its dative singular form remains Papier (no ending change).
• Similar examples: aus Holz (made of wood), aus Glas (made of glass).

• General German word order rule with two full-noun objects: dative usually comes before accusative.
• This order clarifies who gets what: first the recipient, then the gift.

• Clown is a masculine noun in German.
• Like many agent-nouns ending in –er, it takes der in the nominative singular.
• Loanwords from English often adopt a gender; here it’s masculine, so der Clown.

• den Kindern is the dative plural of die Kinder (“the children”). You’d be saying “to the children” (plural definite), not “to each child.”
• jedem Kind emphasizes “to each child (one by one).”
• Both are correct but convey slightly different focuses:
  • den Kindern = “to the children” (as a group)
  • jedem Kind = “to each child” (individually)