Die Reeperbahn befindet sich in Hamburg. (SVploc)
The Reeperbahn is in Hamburg.Ich begebe mich hinein/ins Theater. (SVpdir)
I’m going in/(in)to the theatre.See 18.3 (p. 24).
Die neue Siedlung erstreckt sich bis zum Wald. (SVext)
The new housing estate stretches to the wood.See^37 (pp. 87–90).
(d) Dictionaries and grammars often provide ‘shorthand’ guides to these completion
patterns using general words like jemand- (in the appropriate case form) and etwas.
Where the verb is completed by ‘someone or something’, the case required can be
deduced from the form of jemand-. Thus jemandem oder etwas dienen ‘to serve
someone or something’ requires any noun or pronoun to be in the dative: es dient
keinem Zweck ‘it serves no purpose’, ich habe Ihnen gedient ‘I have been of
service to you’. Often, the forms jemanden, jemandem and jemandes are
abbreviated (e.g. to jmdn., jmdm. and jmds.), but they always show the required
case ending.See 31.5 (p. 58).
Here is a representative list of the basic patterns:Subject + verbschlafen ‘to sleep/be sleeping’
intelligent sein ‘to be intelligent’
Wirtschaftsprüfer sein ‘to be a chartered accountant’
ein guter Freund sein ‘to be a good friend’
jmdm. ähnlich sein ‘to be like someone’See^23 (pp. 37–41).
Subject + verb + one completionjmdn. kennen ‘to know sb.’
jmdm. oder etw. (dat.) dienen ‘to serve sb./sth.’ (19.6)
jmds. oder etw. (gen.) bedürfen ‘to be in need of sb./sth.’ (20.4)Subject + prepositional verb + one completionauf jmdn. oder etw. (acc.) warten ‘to wait for sb. or sth.’
auf jmdm. oder etw. (dat.) bestehen ‘to insist on sb. or sth.’See^38 (pp. 90–3).
Subject + verb + two completionsjmdm. etw. (acc.) zeigen ‘to show sb. sth.’ ( 12 )
jmdn. einer Sache (gen.) beschuldigen ‘to accuse sb. of sth.’ (20.4)
jmdn. etw. (acc.) nennen ‘to call sb. sth.’ (18.8)
jmdn./etw. (acc.) interessant machen ‘to make sb./sth. interesting’42
Basic sentence patterns