(The phone is in the drawer.)ĭie Schublade (drawer) plural: die Schubladen (Tobias puts the phone in the drawer.)ĭas Handy liegt in der Schublade. (The bottle is (in standing position) behind the table.) (He places (in standing position) the bottle behind the table.)ĭie Flasche steht hinter dem Tisch. Stehen and liegen indicate a position (a state).Įr stellt die Flasche hinter den Tisch. Stellen and legen show a process (a process of movement). Literally, the pen is lying on the table.) (to lie, to be lying down) Der Kuli liegt auf dem Tisch. (to stand) Die Flasche steht auf dem Tisch. (I place (horizontally) the bottle on the table.) (I place (horizontally) the pen on the table.) (to place something horizontally) Ich lege den Kuli auf den Tisch. (I place (vertically) the bottle on the table.) (to place something vertically) Ich stelle die Flasche auf den Tisch. (Now the pen is on the table.)ĭifference between the verbs stellen, legen, stehen and liegen When the movement phase is complete, we can now ask, wo ist der Hut? (where is the hat?) In answer to this question the preposition "an" would take dative. "where to" is Sabine taking the hat? The hat is moving from one place to another. For example, wohin hängt Sabine den Hut? (where does Sabine hang the hat? or where does Sabine going to hang the hat? or where is Sabine hanging the hat?)Īll three possible English translations and the original German question give a sense of movement phase i.e. When the preposition "an" takes accusative, we can ask a question with the interrogative pronoun "wohin". When the hat and picture are in the resting phase, the preposition "an" takes the dative. In the above examples where the hat and picture are in the movement phase, the preposition "an" takes the accusative case. (where), the preposition in it would take the dative case after it. (where to), the preposition in it would take the accusative case and if the sentence is an answer to the question pronoun "wo" In simple words, if the sentence is an answer to the question pronoun "wohin"
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