141. Pronouns in Accusative Case & Word Order (III) Answers to Questions

141.  Pronouns in Accusative Case & Word Order (III) Answers to Questions  

Here are the answers to the last post. The simple conversational answer is in brackets at the start but if you were expected to give a full answer, the remaining items in the sentence have been included

1   Wir haben gestern einen neuen Computer gekauft. Was habt ihr gekauft?
  (Einen neuen Computer) habe ich gestern gekauft  Note the verb MUST come 2nd!!!

2   Klaus und Inge fahren jedes Jahr in die Alpen.  Wann fahren sie in die Alpen?
    (Jedes Jahr) fahren Klaus und Inge in die Alpen.

3   Ich kaufe heute Brot. Ich kaufe es immer im Supermarkt. Wo kaufst du es?
     (Im Supermarkt) kaufe ich es immer.

4   Kristl will mit dem Bus nach Darmstadt fahren. Wohin will Kristl mit dem Bus fahren?

     (Nach Darmstadt) will Kristl mit dem Bus fahren.

5   Klaus soll morgen mit dem Zug nach Hause kommen. Wie soll er nach Hause kommen?

     (Mit dem Zug) soll Klaus morgen nach Hause kommen.

*** A last mention about word order here  ... so far I have addressed Main Clauses only but will look at Subordinate Clauses down the track. To give you an example of what I am talking about here, a Main Clause makes sense on its own but a Subordinate Clause just adds meaning to the Main Clause and CANNOT exist on its own.

I went into the city after I had been to uni  (Note the Sub. Cl. starts with a conjunction)

When I had finished shopping I went home by bus.

**** There are slightly different word order variations involved with subordinate clauses and we will look at these later. (See Post 84)

Pronouns, like nouns have case. We saw some time back how nouns could be both subjects and objects in a clause. As such, we say they are in the Nominative Case or the Accusative Case. In the Accusative Case with masculine nouns, we saw how der changed to den ....

Der Käse schmeckt sehr gut. Ich esse gern den Emmentaler Käse, aber nicht den Edamer.

Nominative            Accusative
ich    =  I                  mich   =  me
du     =  you            dich    =  you
er      =  he               ihn      =  him
sie     =  she             sie       =  her
es      =  it                 es        =  it

wir    =  we               uns     =  us
ihr     =  you             euch   =  you (plural of 'du')
Sie     = you              Sie      =  you (pol.)
sie      = they             sie      =  them

+++ We will look at these in detail shortly

Dinkelsbühl - Quiet Sunday Morning before the Boys Band started