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| kgoedert Diglot Newbie Brazil Joined 4563 days ago 20 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 2 16 August 2012 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I am right now trying to transcribe pimsleur 1 lektion 17 and a grammar question came to my mind. At some point in the dialog the girl asks for money saying "... Können Sie mir ein bisschen Geld geben?" and the answer is "... Ich gebe ihn kein Geld." I understood this dialog as "... Can you give me some money?" and the answer as "... I won't give you any money". The question is: instead of "ihn" shouldn't it be Sie? Isn't ihn the akkusativ for er? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5833 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 2 of 2 16 August 2012 at 3:35am | IP Logged |
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The pronoun you heard was Ihnen, which as you can see from the spelling, can be easily confused with ihn if you are a beginner. Geben takes the dative case (to give to so). Sie becomes Ihnen in the dative case. Ich gebe Ihnen kein Geld.
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