{"id":94006,"date":"2023-11-12T07:39:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T12:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/accusative-german-exercises\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T04:43:36","slug":"accusative-german-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/german\/accusative-german-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Accusative German Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s quest, should you choose to accept it, is to tackle the accusative case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But to do this, you’ll have to practice a lot, but don’t worry\u2014I’ve got you.<\/p>\n

Dive into this post to find many accusative German exercises for you to practice with the German accusative case. Sure you could practice with any number of resources, but in this post, I’ve chosen fairy tales to make it more fun.<\/p>\n

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The German Accusative Case in a Nutshell<\/h2>\n

Nouns in German have various cases, depending on their relationship to the action of the sentence.<\/p>\n

There are four basic noun cases:<\/p>\n

Nominative:<\/strong> The noun is performing the action.<\/p>\n

Dative:\u00a0<\/strong>The noun is being indirectly affected by the action.<\/p>\n

Genitive:<\/strong> The noun possesses something\/one.<\/p>\n

Accusative:\u00a0<\/strong>The noun is receiving the action.<\/p>\n

For an example of all four, just look at this sentence:<\/p>\n

“I give my grandmother my father’s cookie.”<\/p>\n

“I” is performing the action, “my grandmother” (the indirect object of the sentence) is being affected by the action, “my father’s” denotes ownership and “a cookie” (the direct object) is receiving the action. Therefore, we can break the sentence down like this:<\/p>\n

Nominative: <\/strong>“I”<\/p>\n

Dative:<\/strong> “my grandmother”<\/p>\n

Genitive:\u00a0<\/strong>“my father’s”<\/p>\n

Accusative:\u00a0<\/strong>“a cookie”<\/p>\n

For the purpose of this post, we will only be talking about the accusative case!<\/p>\n

Identifying the German Accusative Case<\/h2>\n

Accusative Prepositions<\/h3>\n

How can you tell which noun (or pronoun) is using the accusative case? Just look at the prepositions it uses!<\/p>\n

There are certain prepositions which hint that the noun they apply to is in the accusative case. Look for these words:<\/p>\n