German has four cases: the nominative case (N) to indicate the subject, the accusative case (A) to indicate a direct object, the dative case (D) to indicate an indirect object, and the genitive case (G) to indicate possession or a close relationship. Example:
However, the accusative, dative, and genitive cases serve other purposes as well. For example, they go with specific prepositions and expressions.
Nominative
Accusative
Dative
Genitive
Pronouns, case inflections
Nominative case, nouns
Accusative case, nouns
Dative case, nouns
Genitive case, nouns