Practice some of the vocabulary from this song and its dative and accusative prepositions using these flashcards, games and exercises.

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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 and accusative cases in this song. These prepositions and a refresher of the cases can be found below. You can use the following activities to learn and practice these prepositions. Please note, there is one prepoition that appears several times in this song but in all instances it is followed directly by the noun, without any determiner to show the case.

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

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

Resources

Vocabulary List

Term	Meaning	P of S	Context
auf einmal	suddenly, all at once, all of a sudden		auf einmal
aufhören	to stop, finish, come to an end	reg verb	hört
Augenblick (pl Augenblicke)	moment, second	masc noun	Augenblick
aussetzen	to abandon; offer, bequeath, leave; interrupt, adjourn; suspend, defer; stop, break off, give out	reg verb	setzt
beide	both; two	pron	bеide
brauchen	to need, require; need to, have to	reg verb	brauche
entfernt	distant; remote	adj	entfernt
erklären	to explain; account for; declare, announce	reg verb	erklär’n
Funke (pl Funken)	spark	masc noun	Funken
leer	empty; blank	adj	leer
Luft	air; breath; breeze; room, space	fem noun	Luft
näher	closer, nearer; more closely, in more detail	adv	näher
sagen	to say, tell; mean	reg verb	sagst
zuhause	(at) home	adv	zuhause
zwischen	between, among	prep	zwischen

Prepositions with the dative and accusative cases

Preposition	Meaning	Following Case
um	around, at, by, for, because	accusative
auf	on	dative or accusative
in	in, at, to; into	dative or accusative
zwischen	between, among	dative or accusative
bei	near, by; for; at; in; on; with; during; among; despite	dative

Notes

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

We see both examples of ‘in’ in this song:

Ich halt’s kaum aus, alles in mir leer (dative)
Und auf einmal rückt was um uns ist in den Hintergrund (accusative)

Dative and Accusative Cases

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
Nominative	der	die	das	die
Accusative	den	die	das	die
Dative	dem	der	dem	den

Indefinite Articles

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	ein	eine	ein	none
Accusative	einen	eine	ein	none
Dative	einem	einer	einem	none

Personal Pronouns

Nominative	Accusative	Dative
ich	mich	mir
du	dich	dir
er	ihn	ihm
sie	sie	ihr
es	es	ihm
wir	uns	uns
ihr	euch	euch
sie	sie	ihnen
Sie	Sie	Ihnen