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In this example, you can also follow the verb. If it would have been "Er", the verb should have been "hat", instead of "habt". Good luck!
Yes!!! And I'm really embarrassed when listening to sentences containing "ihr" and "er"
I'm confused as to whether this means Ihr in the plural sense like 'You all have a table', or Ihr in the formal sense, talking to only one person. Because if it was a 'You all..' meaning, wouldn't we use haben instead of habt?
It means "you all". You can tell because it uses habt. Your last sentence was incorrect.
Ihr means "you all" in nominative (the main subject of the sentence). You also seem to be confused about using it formally. It can be used to mean "your" when being formal, and like all the formal pronouns it doesn't matter if it's singular or plural. "Das ist Ihr Tisch" is saying "that is your table" in a formal way, and can be said to one person or a group of people who all own the table together.
It has more meanings, too... I still need to look at tables sometimes >_<.
thank you jgines... i made the same mistake because i didnt know the verb the corresponding verb forms for Er and Ihr
No, because "Tisch" (table) is a masculine noun, and einen is used with masculine nouns. Eine is used with feminine nouns and Ein is used with masculine and neuter nouns.
If ein is used for masculine nouns, how can we distinguish whether we should use einen?
Ein is used in the Nominative case (Das ist ein Tisch) but einen is used in the Accusative case i.e. Ich habe einen Tisch.
This also applies to the use of Der vs. Den
Der Tisch isst den Tisch (nonsense, but grammatically correct).
Because Tisch is a direct object. What do you have? A table. A table is the object. So, a table being masculin in the accusative case...einen. Easy, doesn't it? :)
I have a question concerning Ihre. It says that Ihr can mean "you or her". But in a sentence like "Wie ist Ihr name?" Does that mean I can only use it when I am speaking to a woman?
Whats accusative.. I though einen can be used for vowels simply just we use an for a,e,i,o,u..
Ihr would mean you in a formal way. In your case, it means " what is your name?" because Ihr is capitalized. It is not just restricted to feminine
