KS4 · German · Year 11

Biodiversität: definite and indefinite articles after prepositions, da-compounds

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Your learning goal

I can use articles after prepositions and da-compounds to understand and describe where people are and what they are doing in the context of biodiversity.

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What you’ll learn

I can use articles after prepositions and da-compounds to understand and describe where people are and what they are doing in the context of biodiversity.

Key learning points

The prepositions 'durch, für, gegen, um' are used with the accusative. 'Aus, bei, mit, nach, von, zu' use the dative.
'An, auf, in, über, unter, vor, hinter, neben, zwischen' use the accusative for movement or the dative for no movement.
Knowing the prepositions and their cases ensures that the correct form of definite and indefinite articles is used.
Use da-compounds for inanimate nouns already mentioned, including with verbs taking prepositions.
Use accusative or dative pronouns for animate nouns.

Words to know

definite article: word for 'the' which may change according to gender, number and case
indefinite article: the words 'ein', 'eine', 'ein', meaning 'a/an', which may change according to gender, number and case
preposition: a word that is used before a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun, connecting it to another word
da-, dar-: prefix added to prepositions to avoid repetition of the noun

Common mistakes

All prepositions are followed by only one case - for example, the accusative or the dative.

The prepositions 'an, 'auf', 'in', ‘über’, 'unter', ‘vor’, 'hinter', 'neben' and ‘zwischen’ are used with the accusative case when there is movement, but the dative case when there is no movement.

For parents, carers and teachers

The dual case prepositions ('zwischen, über, unter, hinter, vor, neben') are required knowledge for Higher only. However, they are on the AQA Foundation tier list, whilst ‘vor’, 'an' and 'auf' are on the Edexcel Foundation list.