"In einem Glas"

Translation: In a glass

[jolievintage]

Why is this dative?

[Levi]

@jolievintage : Dative is used to express a location: where? "In a glass."

[jolievintage]

Thank you, i'm sure I probably knew that but there's so much to remember!

[sandeepa2]

Levi, Danke !

[AliDadban]

Two-way preposition "in" with no movement: dative.

[garg]

So German 'in' = English 'in'?

[Paulx589]

Yes

[bobrisco]

Why Inside a glass is incorrect? Í´m not native english speaker.

[Jack_Reimann]

Here's an example at a bar/pub:

"Hey mate, i'd like a beer"
"Bottle or glass?"
"In a glass please"

You want the beer/water/juice whatever to be in a glass, so you say it like so.

It's just not natural/right to say you want it inside. Sorry for my crappy example I'm not an English teacher haha. :D

[bobrisco]

if it´s more natural to say "in" instead of "inside" I´ll use just "in". the problem with this sentence it was that without a context I thought it could be use both words. thanks!!

[JonKScott]

"inside" tends to imply an enclosed space like "inside a house". "in" can refer to anything that's capable of having things in/inside it instead of simply on/on top of them. Hope that helps :)

[bobrisco]

Yeah! it helps, thank u!!

[Acsor-B]

I submitted "Into a glass" but it was marked as wrong. Perhaps it really isn't?

[JimLeonard0]

Here the dative form einem is used, which means that the water is already in the glass. Into a glass would be in ein Glas

[formagella]

you pour water into a glass but once you've done that, the water is IN the glass.

into is to the inside, in is in the inside.