| Your team sits in three countries. And yet in the same office. | |
In English:
In standard English, the indirect object is marked either by a prepositional phrase, word order or by certain forms of personal pronoun (me, us, him, her, and them). Thus: "He gave his girlfriend a diamond ring;" "He gave a diamond ring to his girlfriend;" "He gave her it;" or "He gave it to her."
In German:
The dative case has several functions in German. It is marked in a variety of ways, with word order being the least important. The dative personal pronouns are:
| mir = me | uns = us |
| dir = you | euch = y'all |
|   | Ihnen = you |
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ihm = him
ihr = her ihm = it |
ihnen =they |
There are dative forms for other pronouns, as well: man becomes einem, keiner becomes keinem, and wer becomes wem. In colloquial speech, jemand is more common, but jemandem is possible. The reflexive pronoun sich can indicate either the accusative or dative form of er, sie (= she), es, Sie, or sie (= they).
As with the nominative and accusative cases, articles and adjective endings mark the dative, but here there is no distinction between a "der-word" and an "ein-word".1
When there is no article at all, the adjective endings are different. Note that plural nouns themselves receive an "-n" unless they already end in "-n" or "-s":| Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural |
