The genitive case (der Genitiv) is one of German’s four grammatical cases, alongside the nominative, accusative and dative. Its main role is to express possession or close relationships between nouns, ...

“From”, “at”, “since” or “around” – prepositions like these help us to locate things. They point us in the right direction – in time or place, for example. But it is not always as simple as it seems.