Breakdown of Ohne Isomatte würde mein Rücken am Morgen weh tun.
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Both ohne Isomatte and ohne eine Isomatte are grammatically correct.
- ohne Isomatte sounds a bit more general and idiomatic, especially in spoken German, like:
- “without a sleeping mat / without any sleeping mat”
- ohne eine Isomatte is a bit more explicit, focusing on one particular mat:
- “without a (single) sleeping mat”
German often drops the indefinite article after certain prepositions when speaking in general terms, especially with mit and ohne:
- mit Auto fahren – to go by car
- ohne Brille lesen – to read without glasses
So ohne Isomatte fits that common pattern.
Isomatte is in the accusative case.
The preposition ohne always takes the accusative:
- ohne mich
- ohne dich
- ohne den Hund
- ohne eine Isomatte
Here the full form would be ohne eine Isomatte → “without a sleeping mat”, and eine Isomatte is accusative singular feminine. Since nominative and accusative look the same for feminine -e nouns, the form Isomatte itself doesn’t change.