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MaxMusterman353
1 year ago

Hello!

“I bought a sandwich from my school canteen.”

The canteen -> Dativ -> The canteen

The school -> Genitiv -> The school

You see that both the genitive and the dative “the” is used when it is female. However, this is the case of the tripod and the genitive case.

Why? Let’s look at it once:

“From my school canteen.”

You ask, from whom? So you use the Dativfall here after “from” to not disappoint the dear Dativ. From the canteen.

You’re asking, from whom canteen? From the canteen of my school. You use the genitive here.

These are the functions of the cases in German. That’s it.

Did I help you? 😊 For further questions from in the comments!

Many greetings and a beautiful day I wish you! 😉

filmfan69
1 year ago

my school (the canteen belongs to school, so “my school” stands in the genitiv). By the way, it must be called “I” in the front (I just mean it in English) and then “a sandwich bought” (not: “a”).

That you bought the sandwich from the canteen (you bought it, so to speak), that you can say, but is rather uncommon. You’d say I bought a sandwich in the canteen.

filmfan69
1 year ago
Reply to  Dontlikeputin

Crazy, actually. Sometimes one understands the Duden. I can understand that in words where different things are in circulation, different possibilities are also allowed. But invent grammatical mold use that does not exist in everyday language, like sandwich in masculine? I can’t imagine that in Germany this would tell anyone. At least I’ve never heard of it, it sounds so high-grade oblique…

ZiegemitBock
1 year ago
Reply to  Dontlikeputin

The sandwich is the name-giving Earl of S.

MeinName927
1 year ago

from whose canteen => you ask: from the canteen my school (Genitive)

Janaki
1 year ago

By the question: Whose school? Whose calls for the genitive.