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Originally Posted by Rizla
Which is rarely taught to children, and nor does it need to be. This is a point I'm making about English. For the most part, it is simple and obvious. I wonder if the same can be said for German, which as I understand, uses a more complex case system, as well as having three genders!
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Yes, German has case endings. The equivalent in German would be:
Der Hund biss den Mann
with the "den" indicating the accusative case, as opposed to "der" for the nominative.
So in German you could say:
Den Mann biss der Hund
with no loss of meaning. This is in fact done when you want to stress some aspect of the sentence - in this case that it's THE MAN (rather than someone else) that the dog bit.