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What's the difference between the German cases?

The case system in English is not really used anymore so it's a common for difficulty for native English learners of German to get their heads round it! In German there are 4 cases which change articles (the...
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Answered by Lydia A. • German tutor
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Why do masculine nouns sometimes change to den instead of der when there isn't a preposition?

Whether the noun begins with den or der depends on the case it is in (and the rule works in the same way for the articles ein/mein/etc). The case is determined by the role the noun is playing in a particular...
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Answered by Martha K. • German tutor
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Find the unknown side A ( trigonometry with one known side and an angle)

First we need to make sure we have a nicely labelled triangle, identifying which sides are the adjacent, opposite and hypotenuse. 2) Once these are labelled we will can work out which trig function to use wi...
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Answered by Tobias L. • Maths tutor
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Find the equation of the tangent to y = 2x^2 + 7 at x = 3.

The first step here is to identify what to do. Differentiating the equation y = 2x^2 + 7 will result in dy/dx = 4x. Given that you know that x = 3, you can substitute x = 3 into 4x which gives you 4(3) = 12....
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Answered by Danielle C. • Maths tutor
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What is meant by a grammatical case in Latin (e.g. Nominative, Genitive, Accusative)?

The grammatical case system in Latin can be an extremely confusing concept for English speakers because in English, meaning is usually determined through word order alone or, occasionally, when prepositions ...
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Answered by Tom M. • Latin tutor
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