German Grammar Prepositions and Postpositions

 28 August 20:22   = Prepositions and Postpositions =

    German has dative, accusative, animal and two-way prepositions and postpositions. Anniversary preposition causes the adverbial announcement on which it acts to yield the case of the preposition. Two-way prepositions couldcause the adverbial announcement to yield the accusative case if the verb is transitive, and the dative case if the verb is intransitive.

    Notes:

    Gegenüber is one of the attenuate postpositions, which about follows the item it modifies.

     Er angle mir gegenuber.

     Mir gegenuber steht Außenminister Fischer.

    Aber auch:

     Gegenuber von Ihnen befindet sich das Stadtmuseum.

    Nach is aswell sometimes acclimated as a postposition, if its acceptation is according to. The two phrases are equivalent:

     Nach dem Pfarrer sei Gott gut.

     Dem Pfarrer nach sei Gott gut.

    In announced language, the animal with prepositions is nowadays commonly replaced by the dative, e.g.:

     Written: Während des Essens wollen wir nicht gestört werden.

     Spoken: Während dem Essen wollen wir nicht gestört werden.