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Meet der Grund

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All 3 meanings

  1. ground, land (usually as someone's property)
  2. bottom (of a container or a body of water)
  3. (figurative) reason; motive, cause [with für (+ accusative) ‘for something’]

Meanings from Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Forms

How the article changes

For der Grund, 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 Gründe · Dative plural den Gründen

Examples

  1. 1
    Der wichtige Grund überzeugt mich.The important reason convinces me.Nominative · subjectPractise „wichtig“ →
  2. 2
    Ich kenne den guten Grund.I know the good reason.Accusative · kennenPractise „gut“ →
  3. 3
    Wir fragen nach einem genauen Grund.We ask about an exact reason.Dative · nachPractise „genau“ →
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