| 9.4 The Indirect Object - Dative |
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The third picture shows the relation of the three objects.
One person is giving/renting/selling the car to another
one.
| Possible constructions could be |
| The man is giving the
car to his son. If we change the phrase and take the prepositions away it looks like this: The man is giving the car his son. |
The second phrase is still understood, but it's not
perfect. The German system introduces the third declension
- the Dative - to express the relation to the third indirect
object.
| arti. | noun | verb | arti. | noun | prep. | article | noun |
Der  |
Mann | schenkt | das | Auto | - | der | Frau |
| The | man | gives | the | car | to | the | woman |
Again the German phrase does not use any preposition, but it uses the third declension. Instead of die Frau in basic form we have der Frau.
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