![]() ![]() ![]() Keep reading for more below! Avoid the genitive Like the english examples above, German speakers increasingly re-formulate their sentences to avoid using the genitive. Likewise, instead of saying The trunk of the car is full, we can get away without specifying ‘of the car’ and simply say The trunk is full, or even The car trunk is full (if we are specifying car as opposed to the van trunk). However, in everyday speech, instead of saying, for example, The bells of the tower need repairing, we’d actually rephrase to The tower bells need repairing (<– no genitive case at all). In literature or other more formal registers, we might use an phrase with ‘of’ to connect inanimate nouns to each other: the bells of the tower, the trunk of the car In English, it’s common usage to use this form of the genitive for animate objects: the cow’s young calf, her baby’s fuzzy socks, this flower’s petals.
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