English and German schools: pronouns 'uns' and 'ihnen'
I can use object pronouns to talk about school.
English and German schools: pronouns 'uns' and 'ihnen'
I can use object pronouns to talk about school.
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Key learning points
- Practising vocabulary, both known and new, is important for building language knowledge.
- Starting school in Germany is different from a child’s first day at school in England.
- Many German verbs are followed by direct objects or pronouns; two plural direct object pronouns are ‘uns' and 'sie'.
- Some German verbs use indirect or dative objects; two plural indirect object pronouns are 'uns' and 'ihnen'.
- Sometimes indirect object pronouns mean ‘to us’, ‘to them’, etc., but they can just mean ‘us’, ‘them’.
Keywords
Dative - case used for the indirect object in a sentence and after a dative verb or preposition
Indirect object pronoun - replaces the person, people or thing(s) that the verb action is done to, when the action is to me, for you, to them, also called dative pronoun
Common misconception
Object pronouns like me, him, they are always the same in German, like English.
German object pronouns can be direct or indirect; they change their spelling depending on the case needed, e.g. direct object pronoun 'dich' - you is accusative; indirect object pronoun 'dir' - you is dative. The case is often determined by the verb.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
to tell, telling
to allow, allowing
to give, giving
to help, helping
the hobby
the club
the mobile phone
the answer
the street
Assessment exit quiz
5 Questions
to explain, explaining
to allow, allowing
to tell, telling
gave, given
helped