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German Dative Verbs
German Dative Verbs
German Dative Verbs
In the following chart you'll find those German verbs that take a "direct"
object in the dative case rather than the normal accusative case. (More
details about this distinction below.)
The "dative verbs" category is a rather loose classification because almost any
transitive verb can have a dative indirect object. But in general a dative verb
is one that normally takes an object in the dative caseusually without any
other object. The list below does not include such "normal" verbs, as geben
(give) or zeigen (show, indicate), that commonly have both a direct and an
indirect object (as in English): Er gibt mir das Buch.mir is the indirect object
(dative) and Buch is the direct object (accusative).
Note that many dative verbs also have an accusative be- prefix variation:
antworten/beantworten, danken/bedanken, etc. In many cases we have
listed these under Beispiele (examples) in the following chart.
This verb chart uses the new German spelling (die neue Rechtschreibung).