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- "We are in the small garden."
"We are in the small garden."
Translation:Wir sind im kleinen Garten.
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Excuse me. Can "Wir sind iN kleineM Garten" be accepted instead "Wie sind iM kleineN Garten"?
That sentence is however the correct declension for when there's no article (no dem or einem). The thing is, we would usually need an article for a singular object, hence your sentence doesn't sound right (and is specifically not an accurate translation of the English sentence, which has "the" in it).
There are some specific situations where you wouldn't use an article though - newspaper headlines being one. For example: "Escaped prisoner found in small garden". Headlines can also be written like this in German, in which case you'd use in kleinem Garten.
No. You can ask:
- "Wo sind wir?" - (Wo - dativ).
"Wir sind im kleinen Garten." - in+dem = im
And about "kleinen", weak declension is used when the article itself clearly indicates case, gender, and number... http://www.canoo.net/inflection/klein:A (Dativ: dem kleinen)
Unfortunately not. "Wir sind in kleinem Garten" would be incorrect.
A possible sentence would be: "Wir sind in einem kleinen Garten" ("We are in a small garden"), but this is not the equivalent of the English sentence given in the exercise.
Another translation of the English sentence "We are in the small garden" would be: "Wir sind in dem kleinen Garten". In this case, you would not use the preposition "im" (combination of the preposition "in" and the article, dative case, "dem"), but instead use the preposition and the article as separate items.
This, however, would need some context. For example, if there was a large garden ("großer Garten") very close, you could say, to make very clear which garden you mean: "Wir sind in dem KLEINEN Garten".
But normally, without such a context, you would say: "Wir sind im kleinen Garten".
I thought that because of the definite article (in this case "dem"), the adjective would just have an "e" ending (making "klein" "kleine). Why not in this case?
I thought that too but checked out the tables and all genders of dative with a definite article take an -en ending. For weak inflection, all plurals and masculine accusative also take -en with everything else being -e.
we say: 'wir sind im kleinen garten'. But we say: 'wir sind in dem grossen restaurant.' I cannot understand that. If someone can explain, please... Thanks
Why is it "dem"? The garden is in the accusative. Shouldn't it be: "Wir sind in den kleinen Garten"?
The garden is not in the accusative; it's in the dative case.
in takes the dative case when describing a location.
It's written in the table in the link R.Dysangelium gave here. http://www.canoo.net/inflection/klein:A Under - Schwache Flexion (mit bestimmtem Artikel)
If we are going into the garden, use accusative because movement is involved (active accusative). For this sentence we are there, in place, in the garden, so dative is used.
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I don't understand why "in dem" is not acceptable. I thought "im" was a contraction of "in dem," meaning the same things.
In ( two way preposition) Two way prepo. Cause the adverbial expression to take the accusative case if verb indicates an action or movement And dativ case if verb refers to sth thatvis not changing location Im kleinen garten ( not changing location ) _> dativ In der -> dem
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if 'im = in dem' indicates that noun is in the Dative case and is either of Masculine or Neuter gender, shouldn't then in this sentence be used weak inflection of the adjective instead of the strong one which is apparently used in it?
Don't torture yourself with weak, strong and mixed inflections: In the dative, the adjective always end in -n or -en, except when there is no determiner, even implied like here; and even then, it is -(e)m in masculine and neuter singular, -(e)r in feminine singular, but still -(e)n in plural (all genders).
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