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1. German Articles

This begins a series of simple learning, revision and practice videos for people starting German.

I recommend starting with Nominative and then going through to Accusative, Dative and Genitive

The German pronunciation here is kindly provided by my fellow musician and friend Reinhold Behringer (different regions may vary slightly: Reinhold's accent  is close to the "standard" version  but with a slight hint of Franconian (Würzburg area))

German definite articles (= "the")

          Nominative    Accusative     Genitive     Dative

Masculine    der          den            des              dem

singular

Feminine     die          die            der              der

singular

Neuter       das          das            des              dem

singular

All Plurals  die          die            der               den

German indefinite articles (= a/an, some)

          Nominative    Accusative     Genitive     Dative

Masculine     ein         einen          eines           einem

singular

Feminine      eine        eine           einer            einer

singular

Neuter        ein         ein            eines               einem

singular

All Plurals  einige      einige        einiger           einigen

For a little variety I have also added a few examples with

the German word for "this"

          Nominative    Accusative     Genitive     Dative

Masculine    dieser      diesen         dieses       diesem

singular

Feminine     diese       diese          dieser       dieser

singular

Neuter       dieses      dieses         dieses       diesem

singular

All Plurals  diese       diese           dieser         diesen