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- "Wir essen seinen Reis."
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Missing here on other side of Pacific also. Looks like disappeared in 2016. But available via wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20161120002014/http://esl.fis.edu/learners/fis/german/kasus/caseTables.htm
And there you go, in German it works to say its rice, because "das Mädchen" is neuter and could own rice. The problem comes when you translate to English, because the girl is feminine. Yet, in children's stories you will find animals with food that people eat such as in Goldilocks and the three bears. So, maybe there is a story out there with food that is designated as "its rice". Who knows? Of course, in that particular story, the bears are actually given genders: Papa Bear has his bowl, Mama Bear has her bowl and Baby Bear has his little bowl.
The other way around is true: if you have a word with ß in it and you are typing on a keyboard without that character, it is good form to replace it with ss (of course, if you have the ß symbol then you should always use it appropriately). Or if you are writing to a Swiss-German, they do not use the ß. However, as with everything, there are specific rules for proper use of s, ss, and ß in German-German, and in this case, the word is certainly "essen."
That would be "ihren Reis". See the possessive adjectives here: http://www.germanlanguageguide.com/german/grammar/possessive-adjective.asp
The one you're looking for is accusative case, masculine noun.
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So you're saying this table is incorrect? It has his, hers, its as sein/e.
http://german.speak7.com/german_pronouns.htm
I'm really trying to learn my cases and if this resource is inaccurate I worry what else I may have learned.
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Is this table wrong? Using the chart I replied "we eat her rice" and was marked wrong.
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Oh dear, my brain is going to explode with all this grammar, so many different endings to the same word. I am thinking I shall never speak German properly :-(