Lesson 9.05 Dative Prepositions

In Lesson 9.02, you read three conversations from young people. They not only talked about their activities, but also where they came from. Do you remember?

Anita kommt aus Deutschland.

Rudi kommt aus der Schweiz.

Gretchen kommt aus Österreich

They also said they like to do a lot of things "mit den Freunden."

The words aus and mit are two of the prepositions that are always followed by the dative case. Here is the full list of dative prepositions for this unit:

Before you practice writing sentences with dative prepositions, it is a good time to review the chart for the definite article "the." Be sure that you have this chart memorized.