German Preposition and case recognition question?!?!?
So I have a test tomorrow and two things would help me a ton!! First, a question on my homework is confusing me. The sentence is...
Nein, er hatte ein Tuch ______ ___________ ____________.(vor/hinter // sein Gesicht) The answer is, "vor seinem Gesicht". I feel like I have learned that Gesicht is Das. So with that, why is the sentence in Dative!! I dont understand the reasoning. Please explain in detail. Second, can there be two dative prepositional phrases in a sentence or would accusative case precede a dative case. If you don't understand that then sorry, haha, it's hard to explain.
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The gender of the noun doesn't have anything to do with whether the noun has to be in dative. Nouns always have *both* a case and a gender. That depends on the sentence contruction. In this case, the noun has to be dative, because sentences with the preposition "vor" require a dative noun. Luckily, the dative for neutral singular nouns is the same as for masculine singular nouns. It's different only for feminine nouns. Examples:
vor seinem Gesicht (in front of his face) - dative, singular and neutral
vor seinem Garten (in front of his garden) - dative, singular and masculine
vor seiner Küche (in front of his kitchen) - dative, singular and feminine
ohgawd, significantly you comprehend German means higher than me (grammarwise) so all I can do is translate the ones sentences, and wish you'll be able to comprehend some thing from it. I wish you're going to get higher solutions than this... I consider you wish to have support from a health care professional. Ich glaube, dass du Hilfe von einem Doktor brauchst. (Don't confuse "dass" mit "das"!) or Ich glaube du brauchst Hilfe von einem Doktor. I is also in a position to try this for you, however allow me examine my agenda. Vielleicht könnte ich das machen, aber lass mich erst einmal meine Termine überprüfen/checken.
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