11.3 Adverbs are placed between dative (also called indirect) and accusative (also known as
direct) noun objects:
Er warf dem Mädchen plötzlich einen letzten Blick zu und
verschwand.
He suddenly threw the girl a final glance and disappeared.11.4 Adverbs are placed before any adjectives they qualify (as in English):
Das Klima hier ist wesentlich besser.
The climate here is much better.12 Noun and pronoun objects
12.1 When both objects are nouns, the dative precedes the accusative:
Sie gab ihrer Freundin das Kleid.
She gave her friend the dress.12.2 When both objects are personal pronouns, the accusative precedes the dative:
Sie gab es ihr.
She gave her it.12.3 When one object is a noun and the other a personal pronoun, the pronoun comes first,
regardless of case:
Sie gab es ihrer Freundin.
She gave it to her friend.Sie gab ihr das Kleid.
She gave her the dress.NOTE When a noun in the accusative is placed in initial position for the purpose of emphasis the
accusative precedes the dative, and when a dative pronoun is similarly emphasized the dative
precedes the accusative:Das Kleid wollte sie ihrer Freundin nicht geben.
She didn’t want to give her friend the dress.Uns hat sie es nicht gegeben.
She didn’t give it to us.See 15.1 (p. 20).
12.4 In direct questions (see 7 ), the object pronoun (here a dative) normally comes before
the subject:
Wie hat Ihnen der Rotwein geschmeckt?
(How) did you like the red wine?With two pronoun objects the noun subject tends to come first:Deshalb wollte der Vorarbeiter es ihnen nicht glauben.
That’s why the foreman would not believe them.12
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