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© Heidi Behrens
Es gibt……..(there is)
The expression
‘es gibt’
(there is)
is always followed by
an OBJECT!!
(accusative)
What does that
mean??????
Well, let’s have a
look at what happens
to the word ‘a’ in the
following two
sentences.
Subj.
Verb
Subj.
Das
ist
ein Markt
(That is a market)
Subj.
Verb
Obj.
Es
gibt
einen
Markt
(There is a market)
Have you noticed…..?
 ‘ein
Markt’ in sentence 1 changes to
 ‘einen

Markt’ in sentence 2.
THIS IS BECAUSE ‘einen
Markt‘ IS THE
OBJECT (Accusativ) OF THE SENTENCE!!!!
The good news……..
This change only
happens to masculine
(blue) nouns
Subj.
Verb
Obj.
Es
gibt
einen Markt
eine Post
ein Kino
-- Geschäfte
But what if…
I wanted to say that
there isn’t a market
or a cinema ?
No problem – have a
look at this:
Subj.
Verb
Obj.
Es
gibt
keinen
(There is no….)
keine
kein
Markt
Post
Kino
keine
Geschäfte
All you need to do is stick
a ‘k’ in
front of the ‘einen’, ‘eine’, ‘ein’.
Have you noticed what happened to
the plural object? Well look at this
again:
Es gibt -----Geschäfte
Es gibt keine Geschäfte
(there are shops)
(there are no shops)
Remember…..
After the expression
‘es gibt’ you always need an
OBJECT. If the OBJECT is
masculine ‘ein’ becomes
‘(k)einen’!