The Case System Overview Let's look at an example before we start to get a good idea of this chapter's topic. Nominative: Subject Der Kuchen schmeckt gut. The cake tastes good. Akkusative: Direct object Ich nehme den Kuchen, danke. I'll take the cake, thanks. There are four different cases in German: The Nominative, Genitive, Dative and german accusative case practice US Each case gives you information about the respective noun and its relation to the other elements of the sentence. The Nominativ is used for the subject of the sentence (the person or thing that is doing something). german cases nominative accusative dative genitive US there is no additional learning when it comes to the Nominativ as nouns are always cited in that form. Therefore, when you learn new vocabulary, you automatically learn the respective noun`s Nominativ form. The Nominative Case In this table, we can see well that we use the nominative case for the subject . The words in bold are the