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- "We are helping the man."
"We are helping the man."
Translation:Wir helfen dem Mann.
August 9, 2017
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Can you have a German sentence without anything accusative
Of course.
The simplest sentence just has a subject (in the nominative case) and a verb -- for example, Ich singe. "I am singing." No accusative needed.
And some verbs (such as helfen, danken, folgen) take an object in the dative case -- so you can have a sentence that has an object but still no accusative.
There's no requirement for accusative case to "complete" a sentence.