To begin practicing the dative case, you can try using sentences that describe locations -- like Die Lampe steht auf dem Tisch (The lamp is on the table) -- or that involve helping someone. The dative ...

How would you say these sentences in German? I live in a village. I live in a city. I live in a suburb of Bremen. I live in a small town.

“From”, “at”, “since” or “around” – prepositions like these help us to locate things. They point us in the right direction – in time or place, for example. But it is not always as simple as it seems.

To help remember the dative prepositions, sing them to the first two lines of the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas. Remember that King Wenceslas first set out on the ‘date’ (= dative) of the feast ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Scientists have grown thin films of two different crystalline materials on top of each other using an innovative technique called “dative epitaxy.” The researchers discovered the ...