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In the sentence The man sees the dog, the dog is the direct object of the verb "to see". In English, which has mostly lost grammatical cases, the definite article and noun – "the dog" – remain the same noun form without number agreement in the noun either as subject or object, though an artifact of it is in the verb and has number agreement, which changes to "sees".
In general, the dative (German: Dativ) is used to mark the indirect object of a German sentence. For example: Ich schickte dem Mann(e) das Buch. (literally: I sent "to the man" the book.) – Masculine; Ich gab der Frau den Stift zurück. (literally: I gave "to the woman" the pencil back.) – Feminine; Ich überreiche dem Kind(e) ein Geschenk.
The title, Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod (English: the dative is the death of the genitive) is a way of saying Der Dativ ist der Tod des Genitivs or Der Dativ ist des Genitivs Tod, a reference to a linguistic phenomenon in certain dialects of German where a noun in genitive case is replaced by a possessive adjective and noun in the dative ...
The process of creating a schedule — deciding how to order these tasks and how to commit resources between the variety of possible tasks — is called scheduling, [3] [4] and a person responsible for making a particular schedule may be called a scheduler. Making and following schedules is an ancient human activity. [5]
Fabian: Going to the Dogs (German: Fabian oder Der Gang vor die Hunde, lit. 'Fabian or The Walk to the Dogs') is a 2021 German drama film directed by Dominik Graf from a screenplay he co-wrote with Constantin Lieb, based on Erich Kästner's 1931 novel Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten.