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30 Jan

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Do you guys use the Genitiv very often in informal convo? I read that it isn’t very common, but yesterday a friend of mine said that it’s important to learn it.

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Sereina_

30 Jan

Deutsch

@laianafcarv It might disappear at some point but right now it is still used. It's less frequent than it used to be.
Dativ started to take over some parts of it: Das ist Annas Buch -> Das ist das Buch von Anna.
But right now you will still have to learn it. Sorry.

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Halala

30 Jan

Deutsch

I honestlz think that the Genitiv will never completely disapper, especially in its most basic usage, which is simply denoting "belonging to" or ownership.
When it comes to prepositions, Genitiv has almost always been substituted with other cases.
I thus agree with @Sereina_ , if you ignore it it will come back to bite you later.

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laianafcarv

30 Jan

Portugiesisch (Brasilien)

@Sereina_ thank you 😂 thank God it’s not that complicated

luhaman

30 Jan

Deutsch

You can't say that the Genitiv is disappearing at all. In some construction you can hear it even more often than before. EG lots of people say today "trotz des schlechten Wetters" though it should be rather "trotz dem schlechten Wetter".
So if you want to learn German the Genitiv is part of it.

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laianafcarv

30 Jan

Portugiesisch (Brasilien)

@luhaman im learning German just for fun, so I skipped some lessons, like the Genitiv and the Präteritum because I thought it wasn’t used that much. But yeah, I think it might be better to learn them 🥲

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Do you guys use the Genitiv very often in informal convo? I read that it isn’t very common, but yesterday a friend of mine said that it’s important to learn it.

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@laianafcarv It might disappear at some point but right now it is still used. It's less frequent than it used to be. Dativ started to take over some parts of it: Das ist Annas Buch -> Das ist das Buch von Anna. But right now you will still have to learn it. Sorry.

You can't say that the Genitiv is disappearing at all. In some construction you can hear it even more often than before. EG lots of people say today "trotz des schlechten Wetters" though it should be rather "trotz dem schlechten Wetter".So if you want to learn German the Genitiv is part of it.

Do you guys use the Genitiv very often in informal convo? I read that it isn’t very common, but yesterday a friend of mine said that it’s important to learn it.

@laianafcarv It might disappear at some point but right now it is still used. It's less frequent than it used to be.
Dativ started to take over some parts of it: Das ist Annas Buch -> Das ist das Buch von Anna.
But right now you will still have to learn it. Sorry.

You can't say that the Genitiv is disappearing at all. In some construction you can hear it even more often than before. EG lots of people say today "trotz des schlechten Wetters" though it should be rather "trotz dem schlechten Wetter".
So if you want to learn German the Genitiv is part of it.