We’ve chosen some vocabulary and grammatical concepts from this song and provided flashcards, games and exercises for you to learn and practice them.

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Activities

Vocabulary Excercises

We have chosen 15 terms out of this song’s lyrics to form our vocabulary list, which can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice this vocabulary.

Vocabulary Flashcards – Learn the vocabulary from this song with our sets of German to English and English to German flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Vocabulary Games – Practice the vocabulary for this song using our memory and matching games and our word search puzzle.

Vocabulary Exercises – Fill in the missing vocabulary with drag and drop and fill in the blanks exercises.

Grammar Exercises

There are several prepositions that are followed by the dative case in this song. These prepositions and a refresher of the dative case can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice these prepositions. Please note, we have not included instances where the dative is not different from the nominative, such as where the preposition is directly followed by a noun or an adjective.

Dative Preposition Flashcards – Practice the dative prepositions in this song with our sets of German to English and English to German flashcards, then test yourself with our interactive flashcards.

Dative Preposition Games – Practice the dative prepositions in this song using our memory and matching games.

Dative Preposition Exercises – Practice the dative prepositions in this song using our drag and drop, fill in, and highlighting exercises.

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
Anfang (Anfänge)	beginning, start	masc noun	Anfang
bleiben	stay, remain	irreg verb	bleiben
brennen	to burn; shine	irreg verb	brennt
Dickschädel (pl Dickschädel)	stubborn person, pigheaded person	masc noun	Dickschädel
Fehler (pl Fehler)	mistake; fault, flaw	masc noun	Fehler
Glück (no pl)	(good) luck; happiness	neut noun	Glück
Grenze (pl Grenzen)	boundary, border; limit	fem noun	Grenzen
heben	lift, raise	irreg verb	heben
holen	to (go) get, fetch	reg verb	Holst
huckepack	piggyback	adv	huckepack
kneifen	to pinch, squeeze; chicken out, back out	irreg verb	kneif’
schaffen	create, produce, make, cause, establish, handle, manage, complete	irreg verb	geschafft, schaffst
Sorge (pl Sorgen)	worry, concern, trouble, problem	fem noun	Sorgen
Staunen (no pl)	astonishment. amazement, wonder	neut noun	Staunen
Traum (pl Träumen)	dream	masc noun	Träumen
übermorgen	day after tomorrow	adv	Übermorgen
umsonst	free (of charge); for nothing, in vain	adv	umsonst
verbieten	forbid, prohibit, ban	irreg verb	verboten
verfluchen	to curse	reg verb	verfluch’
Zweifel (pl Zweifel)	uncertainty, doubt	masc noun	Zweifel

Prepositions with the dative case

Preposition	Meaning	Following Case
vor	before, prior to; in front of; for, from	dative or accusative*
wegen	because of, due to	genitive or dative**
mit	with, at, including	dative
in	in, at, to	dative or accusative*
an	on, at, in; by, near; with; during	dative or accusative*
aus	out of; from; of, made of	dative

*Some prepositions can take either the accusative or the dative case, depending on the use. For these:
– Use the dative for locations and static positions
– Use the accusative for direction, movement, and changes in position

**While the genitive case is correct after the preposition ‘wegen’, the dative is commonly used in both spoken and written form, as use of the genitive case in German is falling out of use.

Dative Case

The dative case is used for the indirect object of a phrase. It also follows certain prepositions. The tables below show the declensions of the definite articles, indefinite articles and personal pronouns in the dative case.

Definite Articles

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural	Meaning
Nominative	der	die	das	die	the
Dative	dem	der	dem	den	to the

Indefinite Articles

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural	Meaning
Nominative	ein	eine	ein	none	a/an
Dative	einem	einer	einem	none	to a/an

Personal Pronouns

Nominative	Dative	Meaning
ich	mir	to or for me
du	dir	to or for you
er	ihm	to or for him
sie	ihr	to or for her
es	ihm	to or for it
wir	uns	to or for us
ihr	euch	to or for you
sie	ihnen	to or for them
Sie	Ihnen	to or for you

Declension of ‘aller’

These declensions are only used when ‘all’ is not accompanied by an article or a pronoun, and therefore carries the responsibility of showing the gender, number and case of the noun. These are both seen in the line “Mit allen Träumen und all den Sorgen”. With ‘Träumen’ there is no article, so we see the declension of ‘all’, however with ‘Sorgen’ there is a definite article, so it remains simply ‘all’.

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	aller	alle	alles	alle
Dative	allem	aller	allem	allen