Describing Placement (Two Way Prepositions and Special Verbs)
Channel: The German Professor
Date: 2015-04-03

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Please note: The video incorrectly suggests that the verb covered in the video are "two-way" and take either an accusative or dative object. This is incorrect. When these verbs are used in conjunction with a two-way preposition to describe motion, the object of the preposition (not the verb) will be in the accusative case.

Video of class lecture slides introducing German two-way prepositions with the special verbs "stellen" (to place in an upright position), "legen" (to lay), "hängen" (to hang), "setzen" (to set) and "stecken" (to insert). The video begins with a list showing the location and placement forms of these special verbs, before moving to a list giving the definitions of the verbs used to describe placement. The video then provides a short review of how two-way prepositions used to describe location and placement, and then illustrates how German two-way prepositions must take a dative object if any of the special verbs are use to describe placement. The video then concludes with a sample German sentence to illustrate the point.

The video covers:

00:57 List of special verbs (location and placement forms)
01:38 Definitions of special verbs describing placement
02:51 Review of two-way prepositions
04:32 Using special verbs with two-way prepositions
05:14 Sample German sentence