Gentive Prepositions / Präpositionen mit Genitiv - Learn German with Polly Lingual

Introduction

Einführung

Prepositions in German determine the grammatical case of the articles and pronouns used with them. This lesson deals with those that technically take the genitive case.

More often than not though genitive prepositions are used with the dative case instead. This is true even of formal documents or conversations.

There are three other groups of German prepositions:

accusative prepositions which generally imply motion
dative prepositions which tend to be more static
two-way prepositions that can be used with either case to convey different meanings