Today’s blog post will take you through the basics of German Articles. For an advanced learners’ explanation I suggest that you take a look at our free lesson.

The hardest thing about German articles is that, although there are some basic rules, you really have to memorize which nouns and articles belong together.

What is an Article?

One of the most common words in any language is “the”. In German, “the” is not just one word. In fact there are 3, depending on the gender of the noun to which each refers. The short defining word before a noun is really a part of the noun. It’s called an article, and it can be either definite or indefinite. So what’s the difference? (more…)

Guten Tag, Welcome back to the Rocket Languages Blog.

I’m Paul Weber, the host of Rocket German, and it’s my turn to talk about the language I love.

Today we’re going German, and talking about the four different cases of German.

A case, in the grammar sense, is the form of a noun, adjective, or pronoun that shows its relationship to other words in a sentence.

There are four cases in German: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.

This might be a bit tricky for you to get your head around, because cases are not used as much in English as they are in German. The different cases are used depending on the function of the noun in the sentence. The noun can be the subject, direct object or the indirect object of a sentence. Don’t worry, it sounds difficult but we can sort it out for you… (more…)