Learn Two-Way Prepositions in German - Dative OR Accusative - A2 [with Jenny]

"Ich stelle die Tasse auf den Tisch." "Die Kinder spielen im Garten." Confused about how to use two-way prepositions in German? Learn how here, with the comparison of “in” and “into”, plus lots of other useful examples. Let's get started!
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00:00 Intro
01:52 Ich sitze auf einem Stuhl.
01:58 Ich setze mich auf einen Stuhl.
02:02 Ich sitze im Arbeitszimmer.
02:11 Ich halte das Buch in der Hand.
02:21 Ich nehme das Buch in die Hand.
02:34 Minou liegt auf der Couch.
03:24 Ich lege mich auf die Couch.
03:48 Snoopy liegt neben mir.
03:55 Ich sitze zwischen Minou und Snoopy.
04:00 Minou sitzt vor der Couch.
04:21 Das Meerschweinchen sitzt vor dem Haus.
04:34 Das Handy liegt auf dem Tisch.
04:46 Ich lege das Handy auf den Tisch.
05:07 Das Glas Wasser steht auf dem Tisch.
05:19 Ich habe das Glas Wasser auf den Tisch gestellt.
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[@charlene9926]

Liebe Jenny, jetzt übe ich die Wechselpräpositionen. Dann plötzlich habe ich deine herrliche Minou auf diesem Video wider getroffen. Das ist wunderschön👍👍💖💖🎉🎉 Dankeschön 🙏🙏💝💝🤗🤗

[@orchidtreasure1484]

Hallo Jenny, Ich komme aus Kanada. Vielen dank für deine Videos!!!!!!! Jetzt ich verstehe die Wechselpräpositionen!!!!!!

[@masri750]

Ich liebe dich Jenny! Obwohl meine Muttersprache ist Arabisch, Deine Videos sind sehr hilfreich. Ich finde deinen Methoden interessant und einfach. Danke schön!

[@narasimha5566]

Madam, the is the MOST USEFUL lesson.

[@sa.t.h.entertainment5980]

Ich möchte mich bei deine Tolles videos bedanken.

[@vasilisf1243]

Ich stehe immer am Laptop damit Jennys Deutsch Lektion zu sehen. Vilen Dank fur deine Hilfe!!!

[@shreyatupe3316]

Jenny Ma'am! Dankeschön. Ihrer video hilft mir sehr. Ich mag, dass du mehr biespiel gebe. ( Correct me If incase I've made any mistake in the sentence above)

[@karinatube0612]

Dankeschon dear Jenny!!

[@sandeepbisht111]

Hallo Jenny , Du bist der beste

[@elenaadams8885]

Thank you sooooo much for this. Saving my life here

[@cj5273]

This is so helpful, I think I finally understand

[@sahilchauhan9629]

You've taught very very very nicely

[@teacherandres3852]

Du bist super, danke.

[@annhatton1437]

Thanks, you made it sound clear.

[@majorgermai2602]

vielen danke jenny

[@stephenstuart9881]

Once again a very useful explanation of German grammar. As a cat person - I have to say they're very sweet dogs

[@cennetkoroglu4737]

💜💜💜very good

[@baharkeskin6828]

danke schön

[@venzful]

Thank you Jenny!

[@mohanedgaming1243]

Vielen dank!

[@one-minute-songs2043]

Thank you very very very much!!!

[@shah555]

Das ist eine sehr gute Erklärung. ACCUSATIVE - movement from positions or places DATIVE- location or stationary. For easy to remember AKK- Alive( moving) DA - Dead ( no movement)

[@parasite1129]

I also learnt it by DRAM - Dative rest, Accusative moves

[@michaelmascarenhas1281]

Great explanation. You pronounce, both languages... super

[@MegaGehendra]

Meine gute Lehrerin. Grüße aus Nepal 🇳🇵😄🙏🙏🙏

[@antonykc8913]

Hi could you plz start class from the beginning for the new subscribers.At least guide us how to find those lessons.Yoyr class is very useful and highly effective and outstanding.

[@mostafaasg]

Thank you so much

[@samir90237]

Dankbar 🎈🎄

[@rdc61]

Had trouble with that, ty.

[@kardelenakkus1329]

The minute I saw Minou, my heart just melted :) I love your channel!

[@lingoniGERMAN]

😊 thank you

[@lingoniGERMAN]

There is a newer version of this topic right here kzbin.info/www/bejne/r4DQnmd6jbaHq5I

[@mrdoctor1638]

very usefull god bless you thank you love you

[@mehdinajafi5361]

now I understand the difference between legen and liegen!

[@emadabuhagag222]

thank you

[@mousam434]

danke

[@user-ej2bt9lz1v]

danke schon

[@MsFrancescaF]

Deine Tiere sind so süß!!!😻

[@furkankamaci6180]

great.. ty..

[@judibaldock7378]

Fantastic

[@lebensdokumentation]

Jenny'nin ayakkabıyla yastığa ayağını koymasının şokunu bir tek ben mi yaşadım diye yorumlara baktım. Gerçekten bir tek ben yaşamışım.

[@ioichmiguel]

amazing! :)

[@adrianprepelita8683]

Everything it's more simple - if Wo? = Dativ, if Wohin? = Akkusativ

[@languageandmana9255]

I love Minoo and Snoopy❤❤❤❤

[@jonathanrobinson913]

the point is that ACCUSITIVE is used to point out the DESTINATION or the RECIEVER of what happens or is done, it doesn't necessary involves a verb of motion, for example: ich schreibe auf den tisch which means "I write on the (cover of the) table" not on a paper which is located on it.

[@spootsgirl]

I really appreciate all these lessons you have made! Truly have helped on both of German classes

[@MohammadYounos]

Very clever method of teaching, ich gratuliere! Verbs that make interchangeable prepositions take accusative case: stellen sich setzen legen Verbs that make them take dative case: -stehen -sitzen -liegen

[@lingoniGERMAN]

+Mohammad Yonos das stimmt. Sehr gut

[@chriss3030]

According to Jenny you're correct, therefore I am inclined to agree. However, your description in English leaves me to ask - how does a verb "make" interchangeable prepositions, and how does that point to the accusative case? That description is not very clear, at least it isn't how a normal native English speaker would say it, perhaps you mean something like: verbs that work well with more than one preposition take the accusative case? Otherwise it would make more sense to just say: these verbs take the accusative case [are govern by the accusative case]: stellen, sich setzen, legen. Of course the 2 - way prepositions must apply to this concept, however based on that logic I would be inclined to think it would be less obvious which takes the accusative, and which takes the dative. The moral of this message is it is an odd, and or confusing description of what makes a particular preposition cause a verb or vice versa to take the accusative case. Although, if I am not mistaken some dative verbs can use interchangeable prepositions too. It is like you are saying: Verbs that go with many different prepositions are only accusative. Perhaps true, but as I said above. I believe dative verbs can take more than one preposition as well. But I don't have any PhD in German, so clearly I am not an expert. All I can say is I know a little bit. Prepositions and verbs aren't made by each other - they may fit together etc. but enough about this.

[@user-ej2bt9lz1v]

du bist nett

[@AprendeMedicinaconCristianMoya]

Deine Haustiere sind sehr schön!

[@lingoniGERMAN]

+Cristian Moya Danke :) sie sind wunderschön aber auch viel Arbeit 😄

[@EundA.]

👍

[@liubovmkhango5612]

Unter as well

[@tkoss6242]

Wow. Amazing that you can explain it better than the $300 Sag Mal textbook 🤔🤔🤔

[@elvisoduro6978]

Jetzt liege ich auf der Couch

[@marwansharbakart6147]

Das war sehr unglaublich ❤️ danke schon

[@lmgtowwfvzxcf]

Tell sth about the verbs: like, love, write, think, drive, sleep, open , read, and how to conjugate them

[@sumanchhetri4858]

Hallo I like your teaching Thank you so much Can you say me why we should put sitze on dativ and setze on accusativ, how can we remember this verb changing system

[@Anonymous-cn6zl]

Hi Jenny. Does "Auf" mean "on" in "Auf Wiedersehen"? Danke und schönen Tag noch 🙂

[@aniljagtap3821]

Oh my! You made it so easy to understand 😄😊😍

[@timmyturner5831]

ı love your doggos :)

[@elvisoduro6978]

Ich lege mich auf die Couch

[@goodgoodo416]

Neben=near to

[@Boss-dy4lw]

hii jenny , your vedio helped me a lot and can you please explain , what is the difference in meaning between these sentences " ich bin in der bank / post " und " ich bin auf der bank / post" . in which situation "in" is interchangable with " auf " ??????

[@ahmadelsir6947]

Das war bestimmt sehr hilfsbereit, aber ist gibt's auch adere Fall in Akk oder Dativ, z.B wenn sie über Zeit sprechen, gibt's eine Video für das? Danke schön

[@AliKiani7887]

When and how to use Hängen in dative case and when use hängen in Akkusativ case?

[@ritankarpal5503]

I have a doubt that in the sentence '' Ich habe das Glas Wasser auf den tisch gestellt'' there's a movement involved for sure but why in the beginning we didn't use sein verb ''Ich bin....''

[@niazmaksud1139]

Ich setze mich auf die Couch = I am putting myself on the couch (Right translation?) Ich gehe auf die Couch sitzen (Why aren't we using this sentence?)

[@mustakim2144]

Danke schön! Deine Erklärung ist sehr klar ☺

[@moshemaor1731]

Very clear. Very effective. Whenever I want to learn QUICKLY something new, I go to "Learn Geman with Jenny".

[@halahanadi3825]

I would like to saying thank you very much for this great channel. When I was so close from giving up ,I found this channel.your explanations is easy and smooth.

[@magdasava6807]

Finaly I understood the diffrence between Akk and Dat. I love your lessons and your dogs

[@lingoniGERMAN]

so glad to read that! :)

[@mariajoseph340]

Me too

[@annisasyahda2046]

Vielen Dank für Ihre Hilfe, jetzt verstehe ich❣️

[@georgiatoday1508]

i knew that we could use über only with akkusativ

[@tyohanes1485]

Ich finde es sehr gut, dass sie Englisch und Deutsch übersetzt erzählt .! viel Glück für deine Arbeit

[@wasnt.here.3853]

Thanks Jenny. Another situation with Wechselpräpositionen to clear up though. It seems to me to always trigger AKK when discussing something not physical eg ,,Das ist alles, was ich über ihn weiß" where über goes to trigger AKK (ihn). This has nothing to do with movement vs non-movement, so how do the rules in this video translate into this situation?

[@lingoniGERMAN]

in that case you have to look at which verbs require which prepositions and you have to learn the cases that go with these verbs (check out my videos about verbs + prepositions)

[@rubenpennacchi7138]

3/9/20- 9.24 a.m-

[@GBY13]

ausgezeichnet

[@alexriveronava5662]

Den tisch, dem tisch, ein tisch > Danish: bordet. We don't do complicated

[@chriss3030]

Was ist der Unterschied zwischen: Ich gehe in die Schule. & Ich gehe zur Schule. ?? Und was bedeutet dieser Satz "Ich bin bei der Arbeit/Schule." auf Englisch?

[@emmanuelpaniagua8983]

it's a pitty that i can not give you ten likes for this video!!! thanks for making this so easy. :)

[@lingoniGERMAN]

+Emmanuel Paniagua Tausend Dank, Emmanuel!

[@kppadmapriya]

Thank you so much. This made it really simple

[@eddyglopez8028]

I LOVE your lessons!!!

[@swagandcool2694]

Dankeschön for the AMAZING explanation! (your dogs and guinea pig are adorable!)

[@lingoniGERMAN]

Thanks and yes they are 😊

[@goodgoodo416]

At english it have the same meaning there is no attention about (movement) ..the attention only about what happens or are happening or happened or will happen at end...only present simple or continuse and so it depend on there is (result )or not also depend on if it is at present or past or so (time) so there is base .. that is Because the globe is basically mobile😇

[@Asksksmddn]

Obwohl ich keine Hunde mögen, aber deine Hunde sind niedlich.

[@lingoniGERMAN]

Obwohl ich keine Hunde mag, sind deine Hunde niedlich.

[@aryansingh8646]

What if there is a neutral verb in the clause such that it isn't position or movement? What case will I take then? Pls help 🥺

[@anaclaudiakruelschmidt9864]

Excellent!!!!!! Minou and Snoopy are excellent teachers! And so are you 😍💕

[@jcespinoza]

I loved the examples! Awesome job!

[@krsadremre]

Vielen Dank Jenny! Ich habe noch eine Frage. :/ Was ist der Unterschied zwichen "Ich gehe in die Schule" und "Ich gehe zur Schule"? Obwohl es eine Bewegung gibt, kann man zu + Dativ benutzen. Jetzt bin ich verwirrt. :(

[@miguelzaunbos]

Very helpfull!!, vielen danken!!

[@a-stark3]

so none is going to mention about her dogs? no one? well, THEY ARE SO CUTE

[@sevdat]

They are!!!

[@judibaldock7378]

Yes so cute xxx

[@chiragtambade2775]

2:05 does im = in + dem ? is it der Arbeitszimmer (masculine) or das Arbeitszimmer (neuter) ?

[@glaserjohnantolin4962]

Thank you Ma'am Jenny. Your videos are very helpful. Greetings from Philippines.

[@amittyagi2241]

Hi Jenny .Your videos have really helped me. Every day I am learning something new in german. Your examples are superb. It's really good that you give at least 10 to 12 examples to explain a concept. In this way most of my doubts regarding dativ akkusativ and wechsel are now clear. Sie haben mir viel geholfen. Vielen Dank. I wish to improve my German so that I can write the entire paragraph in german without mistakes and not in English. Tschus !

[@maxalaz8997]

you are so so so so so so...helpful thank you and I love you so much...jenny

[@annabelg]

Best explanation I've found of akkusativ and kativ!

[@atharvkalra5050]

Annabel Gonzalez still you spell kativ

[@psgchisolm]

Ich sitze vor dem Computer. Früher setze ich mich vor den Computer.

[@jackolantern7342]

This video has great examples that internalizes the meaning better than reading.(For a great way to remember which prepositions are 2-way prepositions, look for smarterGerman's prepositions song.)

[@Alice0030]

Thank you very much for your lesson! ☺😉😘

[@wannijohn8704]

Bessere bei bringen git's nicht ..Wie immer Short cut sharp explanation!!!

[@leevinciabenteuer1899]

At last, i understand the difference between the two.. Thank you so much..

[@abesapien9930]

4:23 Do Germans call guinea pigs "sea pigs"??? (Meerschweinchen)

[@emilytate5872]

Wow you explained that in 6minutes I totally understand what my workbook was trying to teach me now! Love your work thank you. Also such cute dogs!

[@Anonymous-cn6zl]

2:35 Minou looks at you when you mentioned her name 😃