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Personal pronouns: after prepositions
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lch bin mit ihm spazieren
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Grammar
When a personal pronoun is used after a preposition and refers to a person, the personal pronoun is in the case required by the preposition. For example, the preposition mit is always followed by the dative case.
After certain prepositions used to express movement, that is aus (meaning out or from), auf (meaning on) and in (mean ing in or into), combined forms with hin and her are used to give more emohasis to the action beino carried out.
gegangen. lwentforawalkwith him'
Preposition
hin or her
When a thing rather than a person is referred to, da- is added at the beqinning
au5
hinaus,/heraus
ofthe preposition:
auf
hinauf/herauf
tn
hinein,/herein
Manuela hatte ein Messer geholt und wollte damit den
Manuela had brought a knife and was about to cut the cake
Kuchen schneiden.
with it.
Er
ging die Treppe leise hinauf.
He
Endlich fand sie unser zelt und
@
ruotethat before a preposition beginning with avowel, theform dar-+ preposition is used. Lege es
l
Ertn!
The
+
Put it there Dlease.
bitte darauf.
+
Preposition
went up the stairs
She fi nally found our
qu ietly.
tent and came
kam herein.
inside.
iiffnete die Reisetasche und legte die Hose hinein.
she opened the bag and put in her
Sie
trousers.
following prepositions are affected in this way:
Preposition
Pr'eposition
an
daran
auf
darauf
aus
daraus
bei
dabei
durch
dadurch
fii r
Qafiir
tn
darin
mit
damit
nach
danach
neben
daneben
iiber
dariiber
unter
darunter
zwischen
dazwischen
+
da or dar
For more information on Prepositions, see poge $3.
that a prepositions. Note
these com bi ned forms are also used after verbs followed by
sich erinnern an
+
accusative case
lch erinnere mich nicht daran
Forfurther explanation ofgrammatical terms,
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to remember I don't remember (it)
Please see Pages x-xiv.
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points
When a personal pronoun referring to a person is used after a preposition, the personal pronoun is in the case required by the
preposition.
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when a personal pronoun referring toa thing is used aftera preposition, the construction da(r)- + preposition is used.