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Could someone explain how to form the genitive partitive in German? (Einer meiner wording)
männlich:
Nominativ
Einer meiner Söhne ist im Haus.
One of my sons is in the house.
Genitiv
Das ist das Haus eines meiner Söhne.
This is the house of one of my sons.
Dativ
Dieses ...
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Genitive ending of proper nouns ending in "s" or "z"
As presumed in the question the "normal" genitive-"s" would look strange (Larss Buch, Fritzs Haus). So the official rules (§ 96.1) and also rule 16 at Duden Sprachwissen say, that ...
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Dativ or Akkusativ?
The question is '(the goddess) of whom?' or 'whose (godess)?', it is asking for possession. Consequently 'dieser Schule' is genitive.
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Why is "Mädel" neuter, if it has a feminine referent?
You simply need to accept one of the quirks of German Grammar: biological and grammatical gender aren't connected - grammatical gender is very often not what you would assume and simply needs to be ...
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"Ich sehn' mich nach der Isar Strand." — Why not "dem"?
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Ich sehn' mich nach der Isar Strand.
Here, der Isar is a so-called preposed genitive that prececdes the dative noun Strand.
Long answer
Construction with dative
The phrase sich nach ...
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Dativ or Akkusativ?
It is neither accusative nor dative. It is a genitive attribute inside a nominal phrase which is in nominative case.
The question is not whom? but whose? (wessen?)
Wessen Schutzgottheit ist Hanako?
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Ist "der Preis des Ripples" gutes Deutsch?
As Ripple is a (modern) kind of currency, the same rules should apply as for ordinary currencies, say dollar or birr.
A good expression in German is
Der Dollarkurs ist gesunken.
You also could ...
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Unterlassung des Genitivs "S"
Abkürzungen und Fremdwörter haben im Deutschen kunterbunte Deklinationsformen - sie lassen sich typischerweise nicht in eine der Deklinationsklassen einordnen. Vor allem Namen von Organisationen und ...
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Why is ‘eines’ used in the sentence ‘Eines gleich vorweg’?
Here eines is not genitive and not an article. Instead "eines" is a pronoun, and its neuter form is eines.
You can translate this sentence as
One thing right from the start ...
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Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung
As in English, there are multiple ways to express the genitive:
Das Haus des Nachbarn
The house of the neighbour
compared to
Nachbars Haus
(The) neighbor's house
To keep the article with the ...
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`seine` oder `seiner`?
You are right to claim that erwerben calls for accusative case, and you are also right in stating that the accusative of seine Kenntnisse would be seine Kenntnisse. Seiner Kenntnisse is a genitive. ...
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der Meinung / der Ansicht sein: What is the case in these examples?
These are predicative genitives. This used to be a productive feature of several Indo-European languages and hence appears to be a very old phenomenon (Dal/Eroms 2014: 31). If you read even relatively ...
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Ambiguity in determining the owner of a genitive personal pronoun
You can't tell that from grammar alone.
Seiner may refer to an arbitrary masculine or neuter noun. Only context tells which noun it is.
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Why is the genitive case considered higher register?
There has, and continues to be, admittedly a move away from the genitive to the dative case in the German language.
One of the main reasons for this may be that many (most?) of the German dialects don'...
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Should adjectives be written with or without determinate articles when in genitive?
This isn't about adjectives at all. Or about genitive. But about definiteness.
Grundkategorien politischer Ökonomie
This is indefinite and not exactly one. Hence no article. What this conveys is ...
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Is this sentence from the »Süddeutsche Zeitung« correct?
The sentence is correct in its original form. Your second suggestion gives a wrong parsing. Your first suggestion is at least not wrong, probably also fully correct but nobody would actually say it ...
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Why not "Ende des Februars" instead of "Ende Februar"?
You use "Ende Februar" because you're referring to a point in time. That point of time only supports and specifies a statement, it's not the subject of that statement.
Ich glaube die Klausuren ...
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Genitiv der literarischen Werke
Der Duden "richtiges und gutes Deutsch" hat zu diesem Thema ein eigenes Kapitelchen unter "Buchtitel"
Ob man den Gesamttitel wörtlich zitieren oder Artikel und Possesivpronomen ändern und anpassen ...
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Frage zu doppeltem Genitiv
1. Der nachgestellte und der vorangestellte Genitiv unterscheiden sich nicht nur in bezug auf ihre Stellung. Der vorangestellte Genitiv übernimmt die Funktion eines Artikels und verhält sich nicht ...
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Genitive without an article
First, there's two possible places for genitive in your example sentence:
trotz is a preposition that rules the genitive, so vieler Jahre must be (and actually is) in genitive.
The second place that ...
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Korrekte Genitivform bei Vereinsnamen, die einen Ort enthalten
Korrekt ist Variante 1
des Golfclubs Hintertupflfing
Als klarste Referenz dafür habe ich eine Seite bei canoo.net gefunden. Sie ordnet diese Art von Namen als enge Apposition ein, bei der die ...
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Gibt es etwa die Genitiv-Version von „trotz allem“ gar nicht?
Die Genitiv-Form kommt vor allem in Formulierungen wie den folgenden vor:
Trotz aller Versuche
Trotz allen/alles Geschreis
Die Form trotz alles Geschreis ist anscheinend (siehe http://www.duden....
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Sein + Dative, Genitive or Nominative
You cannot use nominative in this example - Henry and I are not opinions
Henry und ich sind Lehrer.
Would be using nominative, just as in English.
Just as well, verschiedener Meinung is not dative ...
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Did Einstein mean singular or plural when he wrote "der Planckschen Konstanten"?
Both forms for singular genitive are possible, der Konstante and der Konstanten. Duden marks the second variant as the predominant one in technical language (Fachsprache).
I think the reason for the ...
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How to say something belongs to any of a set of things?
As you have realized, for relations of possession, German uses the genitive rather than a preposition like in English.
The Article follows the noun it refers to, in grammatical gender, case and ...
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What is the construction in this headline: "Millionen syrische Kinder leiden unter psychischen Störungen"
The construction behind
Millionen syrische Kinder
is called "Apposition mit Kasusangleichung".
Millionen syrischer Kinder
would be "partitiver Genitiv (Genitivus Partitivus)". Both ...
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I'm having trouble understanding this sentence because of 'des', what am I not understanding?
Des refers to Kranz here in the genitive: des Kranzes.
Der Kranz erhebt sich weit im Süden (the rim rises far to the south)
so used as an adjective phrase that's:
der weit im Süden sich erhebende ...
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Mehrere Adjektive vor einem Wort: alle im Dativ?
»Bildet das zweite Adjektiv mit dem Substantiv eine Bedeutungseinheit, die als Ganzes vom ersten Adjektiv modifiziert wird, dann tritt Wechselflexion ein. […]: nach heftigem parlamentarischen Streit; ...
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„Es ist sehr aufwendig, doch es ist die/der Anstrengung wert“?
Es handelt sich jeweils um zwei verkettete Hauptsätze, es reicht also, den jeweils zweiten Satz zu betrachten.
Es ist die Anstrengung wert.
Dieser Satz ist zweifellos richtig, denn wert sein will ...
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Genitive of "Herr"
Herrn is correct, and it does not refer only to otherworldly persons. It can well be used for normal earthlings.
Das ist das Haus des Herrn Müller. / Das ist Herrn Müllers Haus
Das ist der ...
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