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German verbs with prepositions

Many German verbs take a specific preposition. This is called government (Rektion). The preposition often doesn't match the English one. For example, you are interested "in" something, but in German the preposition is für: Ich interessiere mich für Musik. So you can't translate the preposition word for word.

The preposition takes a specific case, and you need to know it too. So learn the verb, the preposition and the case together: sich interessieren für + Akkusativ. The table below shows these "verb + preposition + case" combinations with an English translation.

Exercises

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