(cache)German Two-Way Prepositions

German Two-Way Prepositions Explained

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Two way prepositions are prepositions that can go with Accusative or Dative. And which one to use depends on what YOU want to say (and if that makes sense).

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and welcome to a new episode of the epic YourDailyGerman grammar course. Today, with a grammar topic that is so hot, it’s might a better fit for German’s OF account. Yes, in my world, the German language has an OF.
But yeah, today, we’ll find out all about

German Two-Way-Prepositions

Prepositions are these little words like auf or vor or mit and a good portion of those can be followed by Dative AND Accusative, each having a different meaning.
If you’re more of a beginner, then you might be like “Huuhhhh?” and it might not be time for this topic yet.
But it’s definitely a very important thing if you want to sound idiomatic at all, and I have to say… most explanations out there, be it on Youtube or in more formal textbooks, are a little bit off.
Not wrong, but odd.

So yeah, that’s what we’ll look at today. First, I’ll give you the quick version and then I’ll elaborate a bit. And then we’ll wrap it up with an exercise.
Here are the quick links so you can jump around.

And now let’s jump right in.

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Bob Reed

7 months ago

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