Accusative prepositions & pronouns
Durch, für, gegen, ohne and um require accusative. Accusative personal pronouns are mich, dich, ihn, sie, es, uns, euch, sie/Sie. Keep gender in mind when replacing a noun.
Understand the idea
Accusative can be assigned by a verb or by a fixed-case preposition. Pronouns and possessives must show the same case even when their forms do not resemble the definite article. A whole phrase needs a consistent pattern.
Build it step by step
With masculine nouns, practise den, einen and meinen as related accusative signals. For pronouns, recall mich, dich and ihn separately from their dative partners. Use accusative after durch, für, gegen, ohne and um in the common patterns taught here. Then check whether the following noun or adjective has its own required form.
See it in a sentence
Wir gehen durch den Park.
Das Geschenk ist für dich.
A useful memory aid
Switch between a full noun phrase and its pronoun. This links den Mann with ihn and die Frau with sie without relying on English word order.
A common trap
Do not replace every masculine object by ihm. Ihm is dative; the ordinary accusative form is ihn.