AKK or DAT

[shrewd mortar]

oops! typo mistake 😅 'folllow'

[green matrix]

I have a question, ich fragst mich, ich antworte dir, why not using dich, why not use AKK. instead of DATIVE

[north cosmos]

Dich is akkusativ

Akkusativ answers the question Wen

Dativ answers the question Wem

Wem antworte Ich? - Dir.

So it is Dativ

[sand wraith]

it's just like that, I don't know what to tell you

fragen uses accusative and antworten uses dative

[north cosmos]

Because Wen frage ich? -Dich. Wem antworte ich? - Dir.

[eager pollen]

Well, the thing is that for a native speaker, it's obviously dative because "wem antworte ich" comes natural to you. For a learner, it's not so obvious why it has to be dative.

However, yeah, ultimately it comes down to just learning which verb takes which case, and hearing it enough until you're comfortable with it. It might match up with how it is in English, but it might also not.

[sand wraith]

this explanation might seem intuitive to you, a native speaker, but to them there's no reason it's not "Wem frage ich?" or "Wen antworte ich?"

[north cosmos]

Right. Forgot that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XjraxIEzrk&ab_channel=YourGermanTeacher

[green matrix]

Then it should be “ Ich fragst mir“ then, why use mich then ?

[north cosmos]

No

fragen is akkusativ

ich frage mich

[green matrix]

Yes that’s what i don’t understand

[eager pollen]

There are some rough guidelines that you can follow. In particular, accusative will often correspond to the direct object, whereas dative will be an indirect object. So in I give you [acc] the ball [dat], or you can also say that dative will often have the meaning of "to you" instead of just "you".

Though again, not all verbs will follow these patterns, and you won't always be able to get a logical explanation for why a certain verb takes a certain case. Thinking in English you might expect danken (thank) and folgen (folllow) to use accusative, but they're dative verbs, so it'll be ich danke dir, not ich danke dich. It's just something that has to be learned together with the verb, much like you learn the article when learning a noun.

[velvet knoll]

it's just like that afaik, some verbs use akkusativ, other verbs use dativ

[green matrix]

So u mean fragen use AKK. And antworten use dative ?

[velvet knoll]

yes

[green matrix]

Maybe I can remember this two words but there are many other words so I can’t remember all in this way.
And also I don’t understand this explanation bc in English or the other 2 languages I can speak dont have this similar grammar

[velvet knoll]

Yeah english kinda dropped dative cases

or better they merged it with accusative and are calling them objective case afaik

[green matrix]

How do you know “ du fragst mich” answers wen, and “ ich antworte dir “answers wem???

[north cosmos]

Intuition

Sorry

I grew up speaking german. You have to learn that

[green matrix]

Only native speakers have it ,

Our brain lost this ability while growing up

[north cosmos]

I didn't mean it like that

It just knwo it

[sand wraith]

well when you know how to make those sentences correctly, you know fragen uses wen because you said "du fragst mich" and mich is accusative and the same with antworten and dir

[green matrix]

That’s why ich antworte dich

[sand wraith]

no, dich is accusative and antworten uses dative