"We are eating his bananas."

Translation: Wir essen seine Bananen.

[Robert_Steen]

Why not seinen Bananen?

[stepintime]

Accusative plural of "sein(e)" is "seine" (for all genders). "Seinen" is accusative singular for masculine nouns (e.g. "der Apfel" - "Wir essen seinen Apfel.").

[LittleBoxO]

Thank you, and why is it not "sein bananen"?

[EliseVervloessem]

because it is plural, :)

[0m0.opparrrr]

Because seinen is supposed to be masculine (der) plural and feminine have die as in seine and is sein

[daguipa]

Thanks God it's plural :-)

[DewaldEste]

Was looking for this xD

[DavidAMartens]

Hallo!
Why would i use seine
instead of ihn?
danke

[DeadJash]

"Seine", "sein", and "seinen" are for "his". "Ihn" is for "him". Hope this helps :)

[JuswaaJosh]

Because ihn is an accusative pronoun. Sein is a possesive pronoun.

[JameezDuol]

Rude! Leave some for the ladies!

[benutzer94]

Can someone explain this to me a bit clearer why seine Bananen and seinen orangensaft? i need to understand all this stuff in a more basic context otherwise i'm going to go do first grade english again...

[alexechoz]

We are talking about someone having/eating something, so we are using the accusitive case. It is essential to unserstand the cases, there are four of them. I found it really hard, got stuck here for about a month. But, once you get it much of this makes sense. For now, to answer your question, when the piece of fruit is owned/eaten by the subject, the sentence is nominative, then a plural piece of fruit will always be seinE. The E is the sign of it referring to a plural, or a female thing. A male object will be seinen, and a neutral object will be sein.

[SarahElSha]

How did you understand them

[Baconeta]

Practise, friend

[RovalenYa]

Haha I speak Russian

[Casey65600]

Seine Bananen because Bananen is plural- therefore it makes the "e" on seine

Seinen Orangensaft because der Orangensaft is Masculine- so in Akkusativ it becomes Den orangensaft. Since it is "his organgejuice and not the orange juice" , we do the sein version of den which is seinen. Seinen Orangensaft

[LorenzoBadas]

Why not "ihre Bananen"?

[requin230]

"Wir essen seine Bananen - we are eating his bananas" " Wir essen ihre Bananen - we are eating her bananas or we are eating their bananas"

[maruf87338]

What's wrong if i use 'Ihn' here instead of Seine?

[CapnDoug]

I think there isn't any German word "Ihn". If you mean "ihn" that is wrong because that means "him" not "his".

[Bangster4]

I don't know the correct grammar explanation, but "ihn" translates to him. So it doesn't make sense in this sentence. Example for "ihn"
I see him = Ich sehe ihn

[nat438107]

Im getting ihr and sein confused

[iSPEAK_1-2]

Ihr means you (plural).

Sein(e) means his

[Parthjahag]

Can someone please give me all the forms of sein in nom. Akku. Dat. And geni. For mas. Fem. Neut. And plural?