Breakdown of Das Amtsgericht prüft den Einspruch.
Questions & Answers about Das Amtsgericht prüft den Einspruch.
Because Amtsgericht is a neuter noun in German.
- der = masculine
- die = feminine
- das = neuter
Here, Amtsgericht is the subject of the sentence, so it is in the nominative case: das Amtsgericht.
A useful thing to remember is that the grammatical gender of a noun in German does not always match anything logical in English. You simply learn the noun together with its article: das Amtsgericht.
Because Einspruch is the direct object here, so it takes the accusative case.
Einspruch is a masculine noun:
- nominative: der Einspruch
- accusative: den Einspruch
So:
- der Einspruch = when it is the subject
- den Einspruch = when it is the direct object
This is one of the most important patterns in German: masculine nouns are the ones where the article changes most clearly in the accusative.