Nominative

• What Does Nominative mean?

  Normal (nouns in normal form)
• What are the definite articles in the nominative case?

  • Der (m)
  • Die (f)
  • Das (n)
  • die (pl)
• What are the indefinite articles in nominative?

  • ein (m)
  • eine (f)
  • ein (n)
  • (k)eine (pl)
• When to use the nominative case?

  The ’subject‘ of a sentence - the person or thing doing the action
• Every ‘subject‘ of a sentence is Nominative
• Use the nominative with any forms of:

  • seen (to be)
  • werden (to become)
  • bleiben (to stay/ remain)
• Nominative pronouns

  • ich
  • du
  • er/ sie/ es/ man
  • wir
  • ihr
  • Sie/ sie
• Relative pronouns

  -der (masc.)

  -die (fem.)

  -das (neut.)

  -die (pl.)