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Easiest and laymans terms for accusative, nominative and dative cases Can anyone explain these three cases, as if, I were a 3 year old

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Nominative= the subject of the sentence.  The subject of the sentence does the action of the verb. 

My dog bites me.   Who bites me?  My dog does.  My dog goes into the nominative.

Accusative= the object of the verb.  Who or what receives the action of the verb?  Who or what "gets done to" by the verb?  My dog bites me.  WHo or what gets bitten?  ME.  Me is the accusative.  It is also called the direct object.  It receives the action of the verb.

Dative = the indirect object.  Usually it is "To me"  or "To him"  or "TO someone or something else."

I give the book to him.  I is the subject (the Nominative).  Book is the accusative (the direct object).  Him is the Dative (the indirect object).


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Well, that makes things easier.


Thank you. It is amazing, how much more focus I need to place and rethink IN THE LANGUAGE I AM LEARNING.

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