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    Nominative / Accusative / Dative

    What Nominative / Accusative / Dative means in German GCSE, as defined for AQA.

    Definition of Nominative / Accusative / Dative

    The grammatical cases in German that show the function of a noun in a sentence (subject, direct object, indirect object).
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