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[kittydesade]

Dative case! Indefinite articles change their form in the dative case. Nouns add an -n in the dative plural, unless the plural already ends in -n or -s.

Masc: dem, diesem, einem, ihrem
Neut: dem, diesem, einem, unserem
Fem: der, dieser, einer, seiner
Plural: den, diesen, keinen, meinen

Masculine nouns which add -n in the accusative also add -n in the dative.

The verbs glauben, gefallen, and gehören always take the dative.

1. Wem gehört der Regenschirm? Der Regenschirm gehört deinem Professor.
2. Wem gehört das Handy? Das Handy gehört deinem Professorin.
3. Wem gehört der Rucksack? Der Rucksack gehört diesem Amerikanerin.
4. Wem gehört die Landkarte? Die Landkarte gehört dem Engländer.
5. Wem gehört das Taschenbuch? Das Taschenbuch gehört deinem Freundin Cornelia.
6. Wem gehört die Zeitung? Die Zeitung gehört dem Busfahrer.


Thank god I'm doing a review after this. Eek.

Tonight, practicing Wish You Were Here and Beat the Devil's Tattoo and then I need to pick another guitar song to practice. And then probably rotate around those three for a few weeks, the rest of the month, something. I'm getting slowly better at them, and faster, but it's still not quite there yet. But it's still fun, which is pretty much the key point here.

It still kind of amazes me that I'm about to hit the end of chapter 6 in my Russian book; heading towards the next lesson and out of 20 lessons (10 in each book) that puts me at 80% done. With grammar and structure and then there's review and so on, but good goddamn. Probably by the end of the year or so I'll be able to start Irish, if not sooner. That will go by much quicker, because I don't actually have an Irish textbook to work from, it's all touristy books and teach yourself. Which is good, they just don't give me the sentences and practice I'd prefer. Might look into importing some. Irish, and then... What I'd really like is someone with a military connection telling me what they use for Arabic standard. Or Pashto or Urdu? I'm thinking I'm going to stick with Arabic Standard though. Or maybe I'll pick that up next and Irish later... something. Think think. The lack of Arabic languages is a pretty big gap, and Irish is a just-for-fun language, as opposed to a widen-my-area-of-communication one. Why yes, there are methods and goals to my madness. Sort of.

Anyway. Back to work. There's a free shipping sale on, which means things are (hopefully!) going to pick up and be a bit nuts here, and at least for today, so they have. We'll see how long this lasts. Mmm languages. Tastes of... something.