The other language learning you tube videos are pretty useless from my experience. Laura is different. She is a very gifted teacher and her videos are priceless. Thank you Laura.
I've been living in Germany for 8 years and started learning German about 1 year ago. I found it almost impossible to understand this part of their grammer, simply because they try to teach German by only speaking in German. For someone like me, who only knows English, explaining these grammer rules in English is really the only way for me to comprehend how they work, how and when to use them. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. Hopefully I'll be able to pass this B1 test in a couple of months.
I can totally understand where you are coming from. I live in Turkey and all my Turkish lessons were in Turkish when it was my first year living in Turkey and I didn't know nothing about the language. I don't know why they teach like that worldwide. They could have just explained in English as most students, including me, could speak English as a second language anyway. And that's how we were and are actually still communicating among each other. Seriously attending these lessons was horrible 😂💔 so glad I'm over with them.
It is very frustrating. I am in austria right now in the same situation. I think teaching german in german is beneficial after B1 once all grammer rules are comprehended by the learner. Not necessarily memorized. Trying to initially teach grammar rules speaking with the grammar rules the learner does not understand yet does not help with comprehension. Just confusion. And when learners are confused, they get frustrated and it takes away the fun. I think that is why so many highly motivated people quit the language which is very sad
@martasluxuries1275 I would suggest delaying the classes and teaching yourself the Grammer rules, then taking a placement test after you have a better understanding. That, or you could find another way to adapt and overcome on your own terms. The classroom setting didn't work for me, so that was part of my solution. What options do you have?
Yes. German grammar is challenging and I am going to have to invest time into really grasping what Laura has presented. However, the explanation that she has given encourages me to believe that I have been provided with a sound basis on which to get to where I need to be. As others have said below, Laura really knows how to teach effectively. What has surprised me is that I have not only bought into Laura's mantra that 'You must begin with German grammar when trying to learn the language' but I am enjoying that journey into the language because of Laura's imaginative explanations.
I have seen it explained simpler : The woman sings to her baby a song. The woman, the Normative. Find the verb - sings: sings what or whom - the song the direct object. To whom: To her baby the indirect object.
For the first time in my life the cases make a small amount of sense, you actually managed to put them into a coherent lesson - bravo. Completely amazing. Thankyou.
I have been struggling with Grammer my entire life, I had watched a lot of videos to different people, but yours are different and easy to understand, Don't stop making videos and enlighteneing us with your knowledge 😍 Love from Egypt 😍
thank you so much for making these videos! i've been learning german solo and been struggling - but your videos are so enlightening i really appreciate them
I am not learning German, but I am trying to learn more English grammar rules/terminology as an Italian student. You are so lovely! Love your energy as a teacher :-)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! For the first time in months I think it's finally getting in to my brain! I have THREE different courses in German that I'm doing because every time I get to this part I'm hitting my head against the wall! I switch courses hoping that maybe it'll be explained differently in a way that makes sense. I guess I just needed to hear it from an English speaker! I feel like I finally have a handle on it! Thanks so much!
Part of the problem for those of us in the United States is that they stopped teaching grammar in English classes after the third grade. Then when they finally permitted us to learn a foreign language in seventh grade, the teacher had to teach us the English grammar first, as Laura is doing (slightly different than I was taught), in order to first learn the concept in English.
You’re one of a kind… as a polyglot myself struggling with german, the way you teach German is just genius… I wish you much success…. You deserve it 🥰🥰🥰🌹🌹🌹👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Laura, your videos are so useful and the way you explain is always so clear. I am taking my time with the foundations and your videos are so useful. Thank you so much for your entire channel!
This has got to be THE most helpful and informative video I've found on this topic. I've struggled with this for years, which has made translating German to English (and vice versa) very difficult for me. But now I feel like I can finally understand one of the most important grammatical aspects of German, and thus have an immensely better understanding of the rest of the language! I definitely just found the most helpful, and easy to digest resources on the Internet! Thank you so so much 🙏🙏
I have been plugging away at this for the last few weeks and this is the first time I have actually understood the accusative and dative cases. Wonderful teaching, thank you!
Seven minutes into the video and my mind is blown! That's how you make a point! Fantastic video Laura! OR should I say: Video fantastic Laura! (Hope this still makes sense)
This video surprised me so much. I mean, in despite my native language has own case system, I've never thought deeply how it actually works;) and here I just realized how HARD it should seem to native English speakers... brilliant explanation!
I first encountered the case system as a native English speaker four years ago while learning Russian. That's six cases, folks! Incredibly confusing and painful at first. But once the concept finally clicks it's actually highly enjoyable. So my advice to German learners is, ''Hang in there!'' Everything will gradually become clear to you in time.
Thank you , Laura. You are doing a great and useful work for helping world community. German is a fascinating language. Danke schön, Laura. 🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hi, I found your video while search a good German language videos and It is really proud way of teaching that you did. I impressed all the videos that you uploaded. Thank you very much
Thanks for the feedback! The genitive case is valuable to learn later on in your journey to fluency, and I look forward to including information on that case in my future courses. :-)
From a Spaniard native point of view, either this is not that complicated or you made a more than excellent work explaining it. Actually in my generation we all learned Latin at school (Already a dead language, I am old but not that old), and maybe, I am wrong, but it seems German Cases is where it is rooted from.
latin has 6 grammatical cases, german has 4 of the same cases of the latin language. Its not that they derive from each other, its rather that latin and german both share a common ancestor language that had these cases and many more, I believe there are languages with 20 cases or something.
Latin and German are both descended from Proto-indoeuropean. German grammar does not derive anything from Latin. After splitting off from Proto-indoeuropean, different language families were formed, most notably, in Europe, is Germanic and Italic. You can obviously tell that German is from the Germanic family. Latin is from the Italic family. Being essentially cousins, it is no surprise that similarities can be found amongst Germanic and Italic languages. Hope you find this little tidbit of linguistic history interesting :) I'm just into hobby study, so someone more learned would be much better to correct me if I'm wrong on anything.
I like german cases Sanskrit has them too: महीला(Womam in nomitive singular case) तस्याः (her) लघवे (small in dative singular) शिशवे (baby in dative singular) एकम् (one in accusative singular) गीतम् (song in accusative singular) गायति (sings in third person singular)
Thank you so much. I’ve watched a lot of videos on the case system and this one has definitely been the most enlightening for me. Literally multiple light bulb moments during this video lol
it took a less than 20 minutes video for me to understand something i couldn't comprehend in the span of 4 years that i have lived in Germany for. this is truly absurd but in a good way. i don't even know what to say
This is such an awesome video.. no digression from the topic and all the information is accurately relevant to the topic in hand. Thanks for this vid, you've earned my like and subscribe 😊
I am from Madurai, India, English is a foreign language and learned in the home country never been to any English speaking countries. Now I am learning German through English. I am at the A1 level. I hope
simply a master of your craft, many thanks, and hats off !, I think you should have a channel on twitch, or a Discord server for a more interactive sessions.
Hii Laura!! I just love your video simple yet effective..I have a question identify cases in following sentence The student gives the teacher whom he admires an apple ; here student is nominative apple accusative teacher dative, then what case whom belongs to?
This is a deeper grammar discussion to be sure but here’s the short answer. Der Schüler (nominative) schenkt dem Lehrer (dative), den er bewundert, einen Apfel (accusative). The ‘den er bewundert’ is a relative clause that has its own sentence structure. Er is nominative, bewundert the conjugated verb, and den is an accusative pronoun that is replacing the noun Lehrer in the clause. Hope this helps!
Thank you for explaining cases so clearly. In your free course about cases, u hv stated that the noun which receives action is nominative cases or subject and noun which takes action is direct object. It got a bit confusing. Can you explain?
Ich habe das Gefühl, ich gucke in einen Spiegel :D Als DAF-Lehrerin versuche ich genau so (inklusive Gestik und Stimmlage, hihi), das Konzept der Fälle im Großen und Ganzen zu erklären, bevor es an die Deklinationen etc. geht. Denn nicht umsonst sind alle Schüler*innen, die in ihrer Muttersprache nicht mit Fällen vertraut sind, völlig überfordert. Dabei hat dieses - zugegebenermaßen komplizierte - System durchaus seine Berechtigung und führt zum goldenen Ziel einer jeden Sprache: effiziente, klare Kommunikation mit möglichst wenig Raum für Missverständnisse ;)
Hi Laura, I really like the videos. I have a question about the cases. Do Germans really pay attention to the use of correct cases in their normal everyday conversations? Like younger people hanging out or kids out on the playground? I am an American English speaker and I know I don't always use correct grammer! Thanks
I'm interested in learning German, I've studied Latin and Greek in school so I'm pretty confident with cases and I know how they works, is it actually the same? That would be very helpful then, thanks!
I want to say that they may still have the same concepts, but I believe that Latin/Greek may have even more cases than German. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Latin and Greek to speak with authority on the subject.
I wanted to ask you where can i find word in german like i know how to learn vocabilery but i dont have the vocabilery to learn because google transleat does not seem to me so trustabale
Would a sentence ever skip over the accusative and go straight to the dative? For example, "The woman sings to her little baby". Are we still looking at Nominative, verb, Dative, or does something here change?
From what I'm aware of, yes. Since we have 'to', or 'zu' in German. The 'zu' is a dative preposition which makes it obvious that the woman sings TO the baby.
At 6:17, item 3, Ein Lied singt die Frau ihrem kleinen baby. To me it sounds just as nonsenseical as the english varient. A song sings a woman her little baby. Unfortunately, I stuck Laura. Can you break this down a bit more? At 11:30, could I also say Ein Lied singt Die Frau? Again, that makes no sense. A song sings a woman. You'll have to explain further.
Sorry for the delay on this! The tricky thing with word order is that both variants mean the same thing in English. Both, “Die Frau singt ihrem kleinen Baby ein Lied,” and “Ein Lied singt die Frau ihrem kleinen Baby,” would translate to the English as “The woman sings a song to her little baby.” The purpose of flexible word order in German is to provide emphasis. In English, we use our tone of voice to provide emphasis. In German, it is the placement of the words that provides emphasis. You can absolutely say “Ein Lied singt die Frau.” Hope this helps. - Lindsay, GwL Team
This video changed my life. I feel like my third eye has opened and I have had an epiphany. Two years of learning german and I've always felt so lost... Maybe god does exist.
Better to think of the genitive case as relating two nouns directly to each other, such as ‘the father of the bride.’ Then we also have what I would dub possessive determiners such as the her that we are using in 'her little baby.'
They are all random so learners can find the video specific to what they are focusing on at the moment. Sorry if that's not exactly what you are looking for! - Nicole, GwL Team
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The other language learning you tube videos are pretty useless from my experience. Laura is different. She is a very gifted teacher and her videos are priceless. Thank you Laura.
Thanks for the kind words!
I've been living in Germany for 8 years and started learning German about 1 year ago. I found it almost impossible to understand this part of their grammer, simply because they try to teach German by only speaking in German. For someone like me, who only knows English, explaining these grammer rules in English is really the only way for me to comprehend how they work, how and when to use them. Thanks for taking the time to make these videos. Hopefully I'll be able to pass this B1 test in a couple of months.
I can totally understand where you are coming from. I live in Turkey and all my Turkish lessons were in Turkish when it was my first year living in Turkey and I didn't know nothing about the language. I don't know why they teach like that worldwide. They could have just explained in English as most students, including me, could speak English as a second language anyway. And that's how we were and are actually still communicating among each other.
Seriously attending these lessons was horrible 😂💔 so glad I'm over with them.
Did you pass?
It is very frustrating. I am in austria right now in the same situation. I think teaching german in german is beneficial after B1 once all grammer rules are comprehended by the learner. Not necessarily memorized. Trying to initially teach grammar rules speaking with the grammar rules the learner does not understand yet does not help with comprehension. Just confusion. And when learners are confused, they get frustrated and it takes away the fun. I think that is why so many highly motivated people quit the language which is very sad
@martasluxuries1275 I would suggest delaying the classes and teaching yourself the Grammer rules, then taking a placement test after you have a better understanding. That, or you could find another way to adapt and overcome on your own terms. The classroom setting didn't work for me, so that was part of my solution. What options do you have?
@katisomonaheng2060 I actually stopped learning german 😅. I'm planning on moving to Spain, so no point in learning anymore
Sweetest most genuine lady i have come across over UA-cam who's teaching german. Thanks laura.
Yes. German grammar is challenging and I am going to have to invest time into really grasping what Laura has presented. However, the explanation that she has given encourages me to believe that I have been provided with a sound basis on which to get to where I need to be. As others have said below, Laura really knows how to teach effectively.
What has surprised me is that I have not only bought into Laura's mantra that 'You must begin with German grammar when trying to learn the language' but I am enjoying that journey into the language because of Laura's imaginative explanations.
Thank you for your kind comment. So glad you are enjoying the journey!
I have seen it explained simpler : The woman sings to her baby a song. The woman, the Normative. Find the verb - sings: sings what or whom - the song the direct object. To whom: To her baby the indirect object.
For the first time in my life the cases make a small amount of sense, you actually managed to put them into a coherent lesson - bravo. Completely amazing. Thankyou.
Danke! Ich lerne Deutsch, and I’m struggling with grammar. This helps so much with accusitivendative object indirect object etc
youre a queen for this Laura! You really made it 'click' for me finally. I hope you're having a nice day, you deserve it
I have been struggling with Grammer my entire life, I had watched a lot of videos to different people, but yours are different and easy to understand, Don't stop making videos and enlighteneing us with your knowledge 😍 Love from Egypt 😍
thank you so much for making these videos! i've been learning german solo and been struggling - but your videos are so enlightening i really appreciate them
Alright, things get clearer. Danke Frau Laura
I am not learning German, but I am trying to learn more English grammar rules/terminology as an Italian student. You are so lovely! Love your energy as a teacher :-)
Tedesco......molto dificile!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! For the first time in months I think it's finally getting in to my brain! I have THREE different courses in German that I'm doing because every time I get to this part I'm hitting my head against the wall! I switch courses hoping that maybe it'll be explained differently in a way that makes sense. I guess I just needed to hear it from an English speaker! I feel like I finally have a handle on it! Thanks so much!
Part of the problem for those of us in the United States is that they stopped teaching grammar in English classes after the third grade. Then when they finally permitted us to learn a foreign language in seventh grade, the teacher had to teach us the English grammar first, as Laura is doing (slightly different than I was taught), in order to first learn the concept in English.
You’re one of a kind… as a polyglot myself struggling with german, the way you teach German is just genius… I wish you much success…. You deserve it 🥰🥰🥰🌹🌹🌹👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I can't tell you how absolutely helpful this is. Thank you!
My pleasure. Glad it was beneficial!
Laura, your videos are so useful and the way you explain is always so clear. I am taking my time with the foundations and your videos are so useful. Thank you so much for your entire channel!
So glad the videos are helpful and thanks for studying with me!
it FINALLY makes sense i’ve been so confused for MONTHS
An amazing teacher. Lara really resolved the issue I was facing for almost 1 year. Thank you very much for making this video :)
So thrilled to hear this video was helpful!
Finally I can make some sense out of this! And I thank you Laura for your goodness!
Thank you so much, Ma'am! This is by far, the best explanation of German Cases - a concept I was absolutely struggling with.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for making this video! Your explanation is very clear and helpful!
Thanks Laura so much for such a useful tutorial~ it is super clear in explaining german case system. It gives me confidence to learn german.
This has got to be THE most helpful and informative video I've found on this topic. I've struggled with this for years, which has made translating German to English (and vice versa) very difficult for me. But now I feel like I can finally understand one of the most important grammatical aspects of German, and thus have an immensely better understanding of the rest of the language!
I definitely just found the most helpful, and easy to digest resources on the Internet! Thank you so so much 🙏🙏
So wonderful to hear. Thanks for checking out my content and for your kind words!
I have been plugging away at this for the last few weeks and this is the first time I have actually understood the accusative and dative cases. Wonderful teaching, thank you!
Seven minutes into the video and my mind is blown!
That's how you make a point!
Fantastic video Laura!
OR should I say:
Video fantastic Laura! (Hope this still makes sense)
This video surprised me so much. I mean, in despite my native language has own case system, I've never thought deeply how it actually works;) and here I just realized how HARD it should seem to native English speakers... brilliant explanation!
Thanks for checking out my content! Glad it was helpful!
'a song sings the woman her little baby' actually rings true in a poetic way
Laura, you are a blessing.. Thank you for making this quite lucid
You're a star, thank you so much for this quality when it's for free!
Thank you, Laura. Your videos are quite helping me in my journey of learning German.
I'm so glad!
I first encountered the case system as a native English speaker four years ago while learning Russian. That's six cases, folks! Incredibly confusing and painful at first. But once the concept finally clicks it's actually highly enjoyable. So my advice to German learners is, ''Hang in there!'' Everything will gradually become clear to you in time.
So true and great advice!
@@GermanwithLaura Am loving the channel, Laura. Just discovered it today.
Thank you , Laura. You are doing a great and useful work for helping world community. German is a fascinating language. Danke schön, Laura.
🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆🥇🏆⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Hi, I found your video while search a good German language videos and It is really proud way of teaching that you did. I impressed all the videos that you uploaded. Thank you very much
Thanks for checking out my content!
Finally this makes sense to me! Thanks!
Wow i love the way tou explain.i would like to take a class of yours.
This is the explanation I needed the most.
Hi Laura. Love your platform. You execute and explained it very well. I love how you speak so gently 😍
Vielen Dank, Lyza! Glad you found me. :-)
this was a great explanation of the first three cases, thank you. you just left out the genitive case which confuses me most.
Thanks for the feedback! The genitive case is valuable to learn later on in your journey to fluency, and I look forward to including information on that case in my future courses. :-)
This just blew my mind. Amazing explanation.
From a Spaniard native point of view, either this is not that complicated or you made a more than excellent work explaining it. Actually in my generation we all learned Latin at school (Already a dead language, I am old but not that old), and maybe, I am wrong, but it seems German Cases is where it is rooted from.
latin has 6 grammatical cases, german has 4 of the same cases of the latin language. Its not that they derive from each other, its rather that latin and german both share a common ancestor language that had these cases and many more, I believe there are languages with 20 cases or something.
Latin and German are both descended from Proto-indoeuropean. German grammar does not derive anything from Latin.
After splitting off from Proto-indoeuropean, different language families were formed, most notably, in Europe, is Germanic and Italic.
You can obviously tell that German is from the Germanic family. Latin is from the Italic family.
Being essentially cousins, it is no surprise that similarities can be found amongst Germanic and Italic languages.
Hope you find this little tidbit of linguistic history interesting :)
I'm just into hobby study, so someone more learned would be much better to correct me if I'm wrong on anything.
best explanation ever!
Wow I am riveted. This is the best grammatical cases video I ever saw!
You are an angel❤️ german teaching one
I like german cases
Sanskrit has them too:
महीला(Womam in nomitive singular case)
तस्याः (her)
लघवे (small in dative singular)
शिशवे (baby in dative singular)
एकम् (one in accusative singular)
गीतम् (song in accusative singular)
गायति (sings in third person singular)
Thank you so much. I’ve watched a lot of videos on the case system and this one has definitely been the most enlightening for me. Literally multiple light bulb moments during this video lol
Wow wow wow. ❤ Thank you so much for makimg this. Ter terms nominative/accusative/ dative I never understood beter earlier!🎉
Thank you Mam. Got to understand the concepts clearly. Very well taught Mam.
Just perfect
it took a less than 20 minutes video for me to understand something i couldn't comprehend in the span of 4 years that i have lived in Germany for. this is truly absurd but in a good way. i don't even know what to say
This is such an awesome video.. no digression from the topic and all the information is accurately relevant to the topic in hand. Thanks for this vid, you've earned my like and subscribe 😊
So glad to have you here! Thanks for the kind words. :-)
Awesome teacher. Thank you
Ms. You're sehr gut Lehrerin of Deutsch.
I am from Madurai, India, English is a foreign language and learned in the home country never been to any English speaking countries. Now I am learning German through English. I am at the A1 level. I hope
I loveeee this… I am soooo happy to find your video thank you so much ☺️❤️
this help so much, now it dosent take me forever to pass a unit on duolingo
It was really good, thank you very much.
simply a master of your craft, many thanks, and hats off !,
I think you should have a channel on twitch, or a Discord server for a more interactive sessions.
Hii Laura!! I just love your video simple yet effective..I have a question identify cases in following sentence The student gives the teacher whom he admires an apple ; here student is nominative apple accusative teacher dative, then what case whom belongs to?
This is a deeper grammar discussion to be sure but here’s the short answer.
Der Schüler (nominative) schenkt dem Lehrer (dative), den er bewundert, einen Apfel (accusative).
The ‘den er bewundert’ is a relative clause that has its own sentence structure. Er is nominative, bewundert the conjugated verb, and den is an accusative pronoun that is replacing the noun Lehrer in the clause.
Hope this helps!
Vielen Dank für Alles!
You are a Legend! Danke!
Thank you for explaining cases so clearly. In your free course about cases, u hv stated that the noun which receives action is nominative cases or subject and noun which takes action is direct object. It got a bit confusing. Can you explain?
Ich habe das Gefühl, ich gucke in einen Spiegel :D Als DAF-Lehrerin versuche ich genau so (inklusive Gestik und Stimmlage, hihi), das Konzept der Fälle im Großen und Ganzen zu erklären, bevor es an die Deklinationen etc. geht. Denn nicht umsonst sind alle Schüler*innen, die in ihrer Muttersprache nicht mit Fällen vertraut sind, völlig überfordert. Dabei hat dieses - zugegebenermaßen komplizierte - System durchaus seine Berechtigung und führt zum goldenen Ziel einer jeden Sprache: effiziente, klare Kommunikation mit möglichst wenig Raum für Missverständnisse ;)
Man this was really helpful, thank you
Just thank you
Best and explain its really worked for me
Hi Laura, I really like the videos. I have a question about the cases. Do Germans really pay attention to the use of correct cases in their normal everyday conversations? Like younger people hanging out or kids out on the playground? I am an American English speaker and I know I don't always use correct grammer! Thanks
German speakers do not always use the correct cases when speaking, even with a case system, but it is important to LEARN the correct way! :)
Wow superb Laura keep going ❤️
Danke schön!
You are the best ma'am 💯
Can u do Present, perfekt, präteritum etc. pls..
Thank you
Thank you. This helps. I just need to hear it a few thousand more times lol😂
Video on repeat?! :)
Thank you very much maaam
you are the Best ❤
Thanks a lot.
Watch this video before you decide to quit learning German.
I'm interested in learning German, I've studied Latin and Greek in school so I'm pretty confident with cases and I know how they works, is it actually the same? That would be very helpful then, thanks!
I want to say that they may still have the same concepts, but I believe that Latin/Greek may have even more cases than German. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Latin and Greek to speak with authority on the subject.
I wish you'd been my German teacher
Is there a way you could simply this in laymen terms?
Great video....danke!
Is there a way to know which videos I have already seen.
Thx really
1:24 Did you say English grammar for German learners
I wanted to ask you where can i find word in german like i know how to learn vocabilery but i dont have the vocabilery to learn because google transleat does not seem to me so trustabale
I like the online dictionaries at dict.leo.org and linguee.com. :-)
Would a sentence ever skip over the accusative and go straight to the dative? For example, "The woman sings to her little baby". Are we still looking at Nominative, verb, Dative, or does something here change?
From what I'm aware of, yes. Since we have 'to', or 'zu' in German.
The 'zu' is a dative preposition which makes it obvious that the woman sings TO the baby.
I dont understand why you dont have more suscribers
What if it’s ‘the woman sings to her little baby’
Would her little baby be accusative or dativ then?
Dative. :-)
What are these cases anyway? 🤔🤔🤔
In English it's called active voice and passive voice.
thank you!!! feel like i can stop crying over my homework now haha
Omg omg omg this is incredible!!!!!
Ja !
U are awesome❤
u r genius♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Gutt Danke
At 6:17, item 3, Ein Lied singt die Frau ihrem kleinen baby. To me it sounds just as nonsenseical as the english varient. A song sings a woman her little baby. Unfortunately, I stuck Laura. Can you break this down a bit more?
At 11:30, could I also say Ein Lied singt Die Frau? Again, that makes no sense. A song sings a woman. You'll have to explain further.
Sorry for the delay on this! The tricky thing with word order is that both variants mean the same thing in English. Both, “Die Frau singt ihrem kleinen Baby ein Lied,” and “Ein Lied singt die Frau ihrem kleinen Baby,” would translate to the English as “The woman sings a song to her little baby.” The purpose of flexible word order in German is to provide emphasis. In English, we use our tone of voice to provide emphasis. In German, it is the placement of the words that provides emphasis. You can absolutely say “Ein Lied singt die Frau.”
Hope this helps. - Lindsay, GwL Team
Just curious, does that accent belong to Nebraska?
I actually grew up in Iowa! Very close. :-D
@@GermanwithLaura i see... Actually you sounded familiar to Penny's accent (Big Bang Theory) :)
What about The woman sings a song to her little baby?
This video changed my life. I feel like my third eye has opened and I have had an epiphany. Two years of learning german and I've always felt so lost... Maybe god does exist.
I thought genitive was showing ownership? Does ihrem kleinen baby not show ownership?
Better to think of the genitive case as relating two nouns directly to each other, such as ‘the father of the bride.’ Then we also have what I would dub possessive determiners such as the her that we are using in 'her little baby.'
where’s the first video? why aren’t they labeled video 1-10? 😭
They are all random so learners can find the video specific to what they are focusing on at the moment. Sorry if that's not exactly what you are looking for! - Nicole, GwL Team