However, some verbs cannot be constructed otherwise, and thus genitive objects remain common language to some degree.
This is true for entsinnen (which is archaic in itself), but also for sentences such as: The two noun and pronoun emphasizers selber and selbst have slightly different meanings than if used with nominal phrases.
The verbs following the formal form of "you"—"Sie"—are conjugated identically as in the third-person plurals.
is third person female; this is shown by the change of "en" to "t" in the action (i.e., "sprechen" vs. "spricht"), not context.
In the above examples, both birthday and dog are masculine, so "it" becomes "er" in the nominative case and "ihn" in accusative.
Another use is after prepositions requiring the genitive case, e.g. "seitens meiner" ("on my part", more typically "meinerseits").
The relative pronouns are as follows: Instead, welcher (-e, -es) may be used, which is seen to be more formal, and only common in interdependent multi-relative clauses, or as a mnemonic to German pupils to learn to distinguish das from dass (it is the first of these if one can say dieses, jenes or welches instead).
On the other hand, in English, the phrase The young woman I invited for coffee yesterday is my cousin's fiancée.
In family event lyrics, the old custom may be revived for the sake of forced rhyme, e.g. "Mein Onkel ist der beste Mann / und ich dies auch begründen kann."
However, it might be translated literally which would result in what some call a very German sentence, e.g. Der gerade um die Ecke kommende Mann ist ein Dieb.
jener, -e, -es (that, the former) dieser, -e, -es (this, the latter) (or "dies" as abbreviation for dieses) ersterer, -e, -es (the former) letzterer, -e, -es (the latter) derjenige, diejenige, dasjenige (the one) derselbe, dieselbe, dasselbe (the same) They follow the format In German, there are the interrogative pronouns.