Sentence
das Objekt
In English: object
A noun or pronoun that completes the verb. The verb decides which case its object takes: accusative, dative, more rarely genitive, or a preposition. English shows objects by word order; German shows them by case.
Example: Die Lehrerin erklärt den Schülern die Regel.
Related lessons
- The accusative: den, einen, and the direct object (A1)
- The dative: the indirect object and dative verbs (A2)