Genitive or Dative after Prepositions? What Real German Does — down to the atom

(A deep, practical, and theoretical guide for teachers, translators, and advanced learners) Introduction — why this matters Many learners and even some teachers were raised on a simple rule: certain prepositions govern the genitive (wegen, trotz, während, statt, innerhalb…), others the dative/accusative. The story is messier. In real German, registers, region, speech economy, idiom, and […]