The fourth and final part of a four-part series on grammatical cases in the German language. In this video, we'll look at the Genitive case in German, and how it compares to the possessive case in English.
00:00 Intro
01:30 What is the Genitive case?
01:54 Possessive options in English
04:24 Possessive options in German
08:12 Indefinite and possessive articles
08:41 Grammatically feminine nouns
10:19 Adjectives
10:50 Genitive verbs
11:58 Prepositions revisited
12:24 Genitive prepositions
13:07 Sidetrack: wegen + pronouns
13:32 "Technically" genitive prepositions
14:11 Unexpected uses of genitive
16:03 Is the genitive case dying?
16:43 Avoiding the genitive
17:49 Do I need to learn genitive?
18:31 Summary and conclusion
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