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Postpositions
German has dative, accusative, genitive and two-way prepositions and
postpositions. Each preposition causes the adverbial expression on which it acts to
take the case of the preposition. Two-way prepositions cause the adverbial
expression to take the accusative case if the verb is transitive, and the dative case if
the verb is intransitive.
statt,
entlang bei hinter
anstatt
ab
Notes:
Gegenüber is one of the rare postpositions which typically follows the object it
modifies.
However:
Nach is also sometimes used as a postposition, when its meaning is "according to".
The two phrases are equivalent:
Two-way prepositions
Accusativ
auf Dative Accusative
e
Contractions
Some combinations of articles and prepositions are usually combined:
Prepositio
Contraction Article
n
ans an das
am an dem
ins in das
im in dem
ums um das
zum zu dem
Prepositio
Contraction Article
n
zur zu der
In all other cases the preposition and articles have to be written separately.
anfangen/
mit dative to begin
beginnen
Verb Preposition Case Meaning (English)