A1 Lesson 27: Possessivartikel in Akkusativ

Hello everyone and welcome to our video series on learn German for beginners. In
the previous lesson, we learned the various accusative articles. In this lesson we'll
be learning the possessive articles in Akkusativ. You can watch the previous video to
learn more about what is Akkusativ and what are the various articles in Akkusativ.
Let's begin:

Lektion 27
Possesivartikel im Akkusativ

If you want to revise Possesivartikel im Nominativ you can watch lesson 24. Now
let's do a few sentences to understand them.

Hi! Ich bin Julia.

Das ist mein Mann. Ich liebe meinen Mann.

Now, let's analyse. Ich in this sentence is the Nominativ Subjekt, whereas, meinen
Mann is the Akkusativ Objekt. And as we have learned, when the Akkusativ Objekt is
masculine, the article changes from ‘ein’ to ‘einen’. In this case, from ‘mein’ to
‘meinen’.

Let's see what happens when the Akkusativ Objekt is with article ‘das’.
Das ist mein Auto.
Ich liebe mein Auto.
In this case, since the article of Auto is ‘das’ the possessive article remains ‘mein’.

And what happens when the Akkusativ Objekt is feminine?

Das ist meine Katze.
Ich liebe meine Katze.
Here also for feminin Akkusativ Objekt, ‘meine’ remains ‘meine’.

And similar is the case for plural.

Das sind meine Kinder.
Ich liebe meine Kinder.
In case of a plural object in the Akkusativ case, ‘meine’ remains ‘meine’.

Let's come to a different possessive article.

Das ist Alex.
Und das ist seine Freundin.
Er mag seine Freundin.
Please notice, that the Akkusativ Objekt here is feminin.

Coming to the maskulin Akkusativ Objekt

Und das ist sein Hund.
Er mag seinen Hund.
So since it's an Akkusativ Objekt in maskulin, the possessive article will change from
‘sein’ to ‘seinen’.
And what happens when the Akkusativ Objekt is neutral?
Das ist sein Motorrad.
Er mag sein Motorrad.
In this case, ‘sein’ remains ‘sein’. - can you tell me why doesnt it change to SEINEN?
yes, because the article is not masculin, its neutral and neutral article doesnt get any
ending in accusative case. well done!

The Akkusativ Objekt in plural is the same as that of feminine.

Das sind seine Freunde.
Er mag seine Freunde.
‘seine’ remains ‘seine’

Now, let's come to a different possessive article,

Das ist Sabrina.
Das ist ihr Freund.
Sie findet ihren Freund nett.
I am sure you have already noticed that the object here in Akkusativ is Freund, and
since it's masculine ‘ihr’ changes to ‘ihren’.

Let's come to the next sentence.

Das ist ihre Gitarre.
Sie findet ihre Gitarre super.
In case of feminin Akkusativ Objekt ‘ihre’ remains ‘ihre’

And when the Akkusativ Objekt is neutral you would say..

Das ist ihr Haus.
Sie findet ihr Haus schön.
‘ihr’ remains ‘ihr’

And yes, the same goes for plural.

Das sind ihre Nachbarn.
Sie findet ihre Nachbarn freundlich.
Here also, ‘ihre’ remains ‘ihre’.

And now it's your turn.

Und du?
Magst du deinen Freund/deine Freundin?
Wie findest du dein Haus?
Liebst du deine Familie?

With the help of the structures we just learned, try to answer these questions.
And now, let's summarize all the Possesivartikel im Akkusativ in a table. The only
difference in the Possesivartikel im Akkusativ is for the masculine pronouns.
‘mein’ changes to ‘meinen’
‘dein’ to ‘deinen’
‘sein’ to ‘seinen’
‘ihr’ to ‘ihren’
‘unser’ to ‘unseren’
‘euer’ to ‘euren’
Do notice the spellings here.
‘ihr’ to ‘ihren’
And once again,
‘Ihr’ to ‘Ihren’

And here’s a short summary in form of sentences, which makes it easier to

remember the possessive articles in Akkusativ for masculine article:

1. Ich bin Maria und ich liebe meinen Hund.

2. Bist du Martin? Liebst du deinen Hund?
3. Das ist Sofia. Sie liebt ihren Hund.
4. Das ist Peter. Er liebt seinen Hund.
5. Sind Sie Herr Müller? Lieben Sie Ihren Hund?
6. Das sind Leni und Max. Sie lieben ihren Hund.
7. Wir sind die Müllers. Wir lieben unseren Hund.
8. Seid ihr Jonah und Ida? Liebt ihr euren Hund?
9. Sind Sie Frau und Herr Schumacher? Lieben Sie Ihren Hund?

Great! Now, let's do a small exercise to understand what we have learned.

Übung
You will be given three choices of possessive articles and you have to choose the
right one. Let's see the first one.
So for this sentence the three options are..
sein, seine and seinen
And do you already have an answer? Let's see if your answer is correct.
Er liebt seine Eltern.
Since Eltern is plural, the right possessive article would be seine.

Coming to the second sentence.

The three options are..
unser, unsere or unseren
And let's see if your answer is correct.
Heute besuchen wir unseren Opa.
Since Opa is maskulin, unser changes to unseren

Coming to the next sentence.

The three options are..
euer, eure or euren
And the correct answer is..
Wie findet ihr euren Lehrer?
Lehrer is maskulin, so we use the Akkusativ for euer, that is, euren.

And here comes the last sentence.

The options are..
Ihr, Ihre or Ihren
Let's see if your answer is correct.
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