{"id":2333,"date":"2011-03-30T19:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2014-05-14T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:58:00","slug":"the-indefinite-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/2333\/the-indefinite-article","title":{"rendered":"The indefinite Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is an indefinite Article?<\/h3>\n

An indefinite article in English is the word \u201ca\u201d. The word \u201ca\u201d can change into \u201can\u201d if the following word starts with an vowel.
\nIn German, the word \u201ca\u201d is \u201cein\u201d. The ending will change depending on gender<\/strong> and depending on the case<\/strong> of the sentence.<\/p>\n

The indefinite article and its forms<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nNominative<\/strong><\/td>\nAccusative<\/strong><\/td>\nDative<\/strong><\/td>\nGenitive<\/strong> (possessive)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
der<\/strong><\/td>\nein<\/td>\neinen<\/td>\neinem<\/td>\neines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
die<\/strong><\/td>\neine<\/td>\neine<\/td>\neiner<\/td>\neiner<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
das<\/strong><\/td>\nein<\/td>\nein<\/td>\neinem<\/td>\neines<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Example sentences:<\/h3>\n

Nominative + male:<\/strong> Dort l\u00e4uft ein Hund.<\/p>\n

Nominative + female:<\/strong> Das ist eine sch\u00f6ne Frau.<\/p>\n

Nominative + neutral:<\/strong> Das ist ein gro\u00dfes Haus.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Accusative + male:<\/strong> Wir haben einen kleinen Hund.<\/p>\n

Accusative + female:<\/strong> Er hat eine sch\u00f6ne Wohnung.<\/p>\n

Accusative + neutral:<\/strong> Ich habe ein neues Auto.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dative + male:<\/strong> Sie hilft einem alten Mann \u00fcber die Strasse.<\/p>\n

Dative + female:<\/strong> Ich gab die Medikamente einer kranken Frau.<\/p>\n

Dative + neutral:<\/strong> Wir halfen einem kleinen Kind.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Genitive + male:<\/strong> Das Haus eines Verbrechers wird durchsucht.<\/p>\n

Genitive + female:<\/strong> Die Schwester einer ber\u00fchmten Schauspielerin ist heute gestorben.<\/p>\n

Genitive + neutral:<\/strong> Die Eltern eines M\u00e4dchens in meiner Klasse, sind sehr reich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is an indefinite Article? An indefinite article in English is the word \u201ca\u201d. The word \u201ca\u201d can change into \u201can\u201d if the following word starts with an vowel. In German, the word \u201ca\u201d is \u201cein\u201d. The ending will change depending on gender and depending on the case of the sentence. The indefinite article and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}