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What is the difference between mein, meine, meiner and meinen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between mein, meine, meiner and meinen ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Mein Bruder heißt Hans.
Mein Buch ist sehr interresant.
Meine Katze ist 4 Jahre alt.
Ich brauche meinen Kuli.
Ich bin mit meiner Freundin gelernt.
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@margaret_pl_at_kh_ so mein and meine are used for people depending on their gender, and meinen is used for things or people in plural?
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"meinen" is also used for things and people in singular akkusativ
Ich besuche meinen Freund
Ich verwende meinen Computer
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The difference is the relationship between the nomen and the other parts of the sentence in each of this cases.
https://www.grundschulkoenig.de/die-4-faelle/
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@tmangupos The translation for "mein" and "meine" is my. If the noun where you want to say that it's yours, feminine (for example the cat = "die Katze") you use "meine" and if it's masculine (for example the dog = "der Hund") you use "mein". You use "meine" too, if the noun where you want to say that it's yours, is plural. (Example: Das sind meine Stifte. = That are my pencils)
Examples: Das ist meine Katze. (That's my cat) or Das ist mein Sti
Das ist mein Hund. (That's my dog).
You use "meinen" and "meiner" in a different context, but this is very hard and if your a beginner, I wouldn't recommend you that. (My English isn't perfect, so maybe there are some mistakes, but I hope you can understand me. If you want to, you can tell me my mistakes.)
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@maritnoelke yes i understand u and thanks for explaining. Ill try to learn more about these. Especially meinen since ive seen alot of people using it.
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@tmangupos Yes, you use it often, but I can't really explain that. I know, when to use it, but I don't really know why. So I can't tell you that exact grammatical theme...😂
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@maritnoelke can u give any example where its used? For me i can understand easier if u gave examples than to describe or explain it.
- Portuguese (Brazil)
MEINER: ist da ein Hund? Ja, da ist EINER und er ist MEINER.
MEINEN. Suchst du deinen Regenschirm? Ja, aber ich finde nur DEINEN (Regenschirm)
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