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Meet der Fall

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All 8 meanings

  1. fall, drop (the act of falling or an instance thereof)
  2. fall, capture (the act of being seized by enemy forces)
  3. fall; the loss of one's innocence, honour, reputation, fortune, etc.
  4. case (actual event, situation, or fact)
  5. case (instance or event as a topic of study)
  6. case (piece of work subject to case handling in an authority, court, customer support etc.)

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Fall, use the coloured columns: masculine and plural.

der, die, das
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativederdiedasdie
accusativedendiedasdie
dativedemderdemden
ein, kein, mein: ein has no plural. mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser… end like kein.
Casemasculinefeminineneuterplural
nominativeeineineeinkeine
accusativeeineneineeinkeine
dativeeinemeinereinemkeinen

Plural die Fälle · Dative plural den Fällen

Examples

  1. 1
    Der schlimme Fall beschäftigt den Richter.The serious case keeps the judge busy.Nominative · subjectPractise „schlimm“ →
  2. 2
    Ich bespreche einen schwierigen Fall.I discuss a difficult case.Accusative · besprechenPractise „schwierig“ →
  3. 3
    Er erzählt von einem alten Fall.He talks about an old case.Dative · vonPractise „alt“ →
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