{"id":10021,"date":"2018-07-12T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/?p=10021"},"modified":"2018-07-12T14:16:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:16:46","slug":"the-difference-between-das-dass-and-das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/german\/the-difference-between-das-dass-and-das\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between das, dass and da\u00df"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have come across the word\u00a0das<\/em>. It is the article for neuter nouns, and so it shows up quite a lot. But then there is also\u00a0dass<\/em>. And\u00a0da\u00df<\/em>? And they all sound the same! What are all these words? Let’s disentangle this\u00a0Wortsalat\u00a0<\/em>(word salad) today!<\/p>\n

Der Artikel\u00a0<\/em>(the article)<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n
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Das\u00a0<\/em>is the most common and straightforward one. It is the article for neuter nouns in German, and\u00a0das\u00a0<\/em>is the form in nominative and accusative.<\/p>\n

Dort ist das<\/span> Pferd\u00a0<\/em>(There is the<\/span> horse) – Nominativ<\/em><\/p>\n

Dort ist dessen Freund, das<\/span> Kaninchen\u00a0<\/em>(There is its friend, the<\/span> bunny) –\u00a0Genitiv<\/em><\/p>\n

Das Pferd gibt dem<\/span> Kaninchen einen Kuss\u00a0<\/em>(The hose gives the<\/span> bunny a kiss) –\u00a0Dativ<\/em><\/p>\n

Aber das Kaninchen bei\u00dft das<\/span> Pferd\u00a0<\/em>(But the bunny bites the<\/span> horse) –\u00a0Akkusativ<\/em><\/p>\n

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Das Relativpronomen<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(relative pronoun)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

can also be a\u00a0Relativpronomen\u00a0<\/em>(relative pronoun):<\/p>\n

Dort ist das Kaninchen, das<\/span> ich suche.\u00a0<\/em>(There is the bunny\u00a0that<\/span> I am looking for).<\/p>\n

So even though there is a comma before, it is\u00a0not<\/strong><\/span> a conjunction!<\/p>\n

Die Konjunktion\u00a0<\/em>(The Conjunction)<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n
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You can see a conjunction through the double-s at the end of\u00a0dass<\/em>. This is not<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0an article, but\u00a0a conjunction.<\/p>\n

Here is an example:<\/p>\n

Das Kaninchen bedauert,\u00a0dass<\/span> es das Pferd gebissen hat.\u00a0<\/em>(The bunny regrets that<\/span> it bit the horse.)<\/p>\n

Sometimes, you may see a sentence construction with\u00a0…, dass das …<\/em> That is absolutely normal, and you don’t need to worry avoiding that. Here is an example:<\/p>\n

Wie kann es sein, dass das<\/span> Kaninchen das Pferd bei\u00dft?!\u00a0<\/em>(How can it be, that the<\/span> bunny bites the horse?!)<\/p>\n

Die veraltete Konjunktion <\/em>(The obsolete conjunction)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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You may sometimes still see\u00a0da\u00df<\/em>, especially in older texts, for example the original texts of the\u00a0M\u00e4rchen der Gebr\u00fcder Grimm\u00a0<\/em>(fairy tales of the Grimm brothers). See the example below!<\/p>\n

However, in 1996, there was a\u00a0Rechtschreibreform\u00a0<\/em>(spelling reform) that changed the spelling from\u00a0da\u00df\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0dass<\/em>. Despite that, people that are used to writing\u00a0da\u00df\u00a0<\/em>and didn’t care to change will still use it.<\/p>\n

So:\u00a0da\u00df\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0no longer<\/strong><\/span> used.<\/p>\n

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Copy of a book of 1812 of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers. Da\u00df<\/em> occurrences are red underlined. Public domain, from Commons.wikimedia.org<\/p><\/div>\n

Hope that cleared up something for you!<\/p>\n

Any questions, doubts, concerns, comments, additions? Let me know in the comments below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

You may have come across the word\u00a0das. It is the article for neuter nouns, and so it shows up quite a lot. But then there is also\u00a0dass. And\u00a0da\u00df? And they all sound the same! What are all these words? Let’s disentangle this\u00a0Wortsalat\u00a0(word salad) today! Der Artikel\u00a0(the article) Das\u00a0is the most common and straightforward one. It…<\/p>\n

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