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Mr. Puddle: Sehr gut!

Miss Purrplexed:: Danke!

Miss Purrplexed: Bitte, gib mir das Auto!

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Take your chance and try to guess what these  sentences mean ! Even more, guess the word's case!

Mrs. Purrplexed wants to play!

Let's translate !

1.They are delivering it to me

2.I’m sending my car to my father today

3.We’re giving this laptop to our friends

4.She is recommending a doctor to my mother

Let's translate !

1.She’s giving me the pen

2.I lend money to her brother

3.My friend is sending a gift to his mother

4.They are recommending us a good movie

Translation 2 :

I deliver it to you

If the direct object is a pronoun, then it comes first, followed by the indirect object

Translation 1 :

I’m showing the house

Exceptions

✔️ fragen, kosten have two direct objects

Das kostete mich (direct object) ein Haus (direct object) 

Structures

The indirect object is always placed before the direct object

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The verbs with accusative and dative mix.

There are many verbs in this category, so let’s take a look at the most common ones:

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Mr. Puddle: Geben is a dative verb as well as  an accusative verb, while helfen is only dative. Please, don’t forget the structures! “Subject - indirect object” pairs function as long as the direct object isn’t a pronoun. Now, how do I say politely: Give me the car!

Mr. Puddle: Danke! Das ist lieb von dir! Yet, you made one mistake. Geben is a dative verb, so we say “Ich gebe dir” or, you can say it formally “Ich gebe Ihnen”, when you talk to a teacher. I’ve got a question for you: what’s the difference between “helfen” and “geben”?

Miss Purrplexed:: I know that these verbs are both dative verbs… Umm.. I can’t remember!

Miss Purrplexed:  Alles gute zum Geburtstag! I gebe dich eine Schokolade!

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Geben has two objects: direct (einen Apfel) and indirect (dem Mann) which is a person.

Mrs. Puddles gives a tip!

V. Let's practice! - Verbs in dative accusative + dative case

     IV. Purrrfection explained! - Verbs in dative accusative + dative case

✔️Remember that all these verbs may have two object 

✔️Structures are intuitive to learn: the person (indirect objects) is in the first position as long as the direct object isn’t a pronoun (it’s a thing).

✔️The pronouns (direct object) are always in the first position !

✔️Remember the exceptions: kosten and fragen, which have two direct objects

 III.  Tips & Tricks : How to learn  them easily? - Verbs in dative accusative + dative case

II.  Practical examples - Verbs in dative accusative + dative case

Up to this moment we learned and previously revised the Dative and Accusative cases (here accusative and here dative ), the verbs with dative and accusative prepositions (here!) and understood quite well the relationship between subject and the direct/indirect objects. 

✔️ There is another category of verbs which simultaneously have a direct and indirect object. You may have seen this example at the last lesson:

I gebe dem Mann einen Apfel 

dem Mann   ↪ indirect object: Dative object 

einen Apfel ↪ direct object: Accusative case 

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