Pronomen — German Pronoun Practice

A free app to practise German pronouns: personal pronouns (mich, mir, ihn, ihm), reflexive pronouns (mich versus mir), possessive determiners (mein, meinen, meinem) and relative pronouns (der, den, dem). A2 to B2, with every answer explained.

Personal pronouns

The case of a personal pronoun comes from the verb or the preposition. Ich sehe ihn takes Akkusativ; ich helfe ihm takes Dativ, because helfen governs the dative.

Reflexive pronouns: mich or mir

A reflexive pronoun is accusative unless the sentence already has a direct object, in which case it becomes dative. Ich wasche mich, but ich wasche mir die Hände.

Possessive determiners

Possessives take the stem for the owner and the ending for the case: mein Bruder in the nominative, meinen Bruder in the accusative, meinem Bruder in the dative.

Relative pronouns

A relative pronoun takes its gender and number from the noun it refers back to, but its case from its own clause. Der Mann, den ich sehe. Der Mann, dem ich helfe.