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Doitsujin
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03 January 2015 at 8:31am | IP Logged

soclydeza85 wrote:

If bei is a dative preposition, shouldn't it be "Herr Muller - bei ihm", "meine Frau - bei ihr", "sie - bei ihnen" and so on?

The expression "bei sich haben" requires a reflexive pronoun. That's why the third person form bei sich must be used instead of the regular object forms bei ihm/ihr.

Edited by Doitsujin on 03 January 2015 at 10:12am

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