Possessive determiners, ownership, family connections, and agreement with gender and number.
Recognize and use words for close and extended family, including Mutter, Vater, Eltern, Geschwister, Großeltern, and Cousine. Describe family connections with short patterns such as Das ist meine Schwester.
Translate words from your previous vocabulary lesson.
Name common possessions from different noun genders and numbers, such as der Schlüssel, die Tasche, das Handy, and die Bücher. Use them in short statements about who owns what.
Read sentences using words you recently learned.
Listen to sentences using words you recently learned.
Choose mein, dein, sein, ihr, unser, euer, and Ihr according to the owner. Distinguish sein from ihr and recognize capitalized Ihr for formal address.
Match possessive determiners to masculine, feminine, neuter, and plural nouns in the nominative: mein Bruder, meine Mutter, mein Kind, and meine Eltern. Apply the shortened and inflected forms of euer, such as eure.
Use possessive determiners with direct objects and choose the accusative endings, especially masculine forms such as meinen Bruder. Contrast nominative and accusative forms in simple sentences.
Ask and answer Wem gehört das? and Wem gehören die Schlüssel? Use gehören with dative owner forms such as mir, dir, ihm, ihr, uns, and ihnen.
Ask Wessen Buch ist das? and answer with possessive determiners or a person’s name. Form name-based possession with -s, as in Annas Buch and Peters Auto.
Express relationships and ownership with von phrases such as der Bruder von Maria and das Fahrrad von meinem Freund. Use the required dative forms after von.
Review this chapter with practice based on your mistakes.
