KS3 · German · Year 7
Poems: prepositions 'in' and 'auf' (accusative and dative)
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Your learning goal
I understand the importance of noun gender, can use 'in' and 'auf' to express movement or location, and can test my understanding of language by reading and writing a poem.
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I understand the importance of noun gender, can use 'in' and 'auf' to express movement or location, and can test my understanding of language by reading and writing a poem.
Key learning points
- Knowing the grammatical gender of nouns is important for accurate grammar and clear communication.
- To say where something or someone is moving to, use ‘in’ ('into') and ‘auf’ ('onto') with the accusative case.
- To say where something or someone is located, use ‘in’ ('in') and ‘auf’ ('on') with the dative case.
- Texts, such as poems, can help us understand how language works in context.
Words to know
- grammatical gender
- a way to categorise all nouns as either feminine, masculine or neuter
- in
- preposition meaning 'in', 'into'
- auf
- preposition meaning 'on', 'onto'
- accusative case
- case used after a preposition to indicate movement towards something or someone
- dative case
- case used after a preposition to indicate the location of something or someone
Common mistakes
As long as we know the meaning of a noun, we don't need to worry about its grammatical gender.
Knowing the grammatical gender of a noun is very important, because the gender affects the form of other parts of a sentence, such as the article or preposition. This in turn affects the clarity and comprehensibility of the message.
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