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Connection with Time
You might want to say 'every day', 'this week', 'every morning', or 'which Tuesday night?'. But to do 
this, not only do you need to know the jeder-forms, but also the genders of the times and the cases. The 
second one is easy: 
Whenever you do something at a certain time, that time is put into 
Accusative 
Case
.
Last lesson, you learned the gender of one time: 
der
Tag. So now you know everything to say 
'diesen Tag', 'jeden Tag', and 'welchen Tag?' (this day, every day, and which day?). Here are the cases 
of all the times in 
Lesson 2
:
Masculine
Feminine
Neuter
•
Tag 
•
Monat 
•
Morgen 
•
Abend 
•
Nachmittag 
•
Woche 
•
Nacht 
•
Jahr 
•
Wochenende 
When extending to 'which Tuesday night?', remember that the night stays feminine on Tuesday, so it 
stays "Welche Dienstagnacht?". Likewise, you can say 'every June' the same as 'every month': 'jeden 
Juni'.
This and That
Ich möchte einen Cheeseburger. Der schmeckt sehr gut.
Ich esse jeden Tag Cheeseburger. Die habe ich gern.
Look at the second sentence of each of these German dialogues. What's missing? That's right, instead 
of "Der Cheeseburger schmeckt sehr gut." and "Die Cheeseburger habe ich gern.", both of the 
'Cheeseburger's, so to speak, are dropped. We're left with just the articles, only in this case, they aren't 
articles. They're 
demonstrative pronouns
.
Demonstrative pronouns aren't scary. They're just the same as the normal pronouns, only they give 
more 
oomph
to the sentence. They can be translated as either 'this' or 'that' ("I'd like a cheeseburger. 
That tastes very good."), or 'these' or 'those' for plurals ("I eat cheeseburgers every day. These I like.").
Demonstrative pronouns are exactly the same as the definite articles (well, there is one change in 
dative, but that will be covered in 
Lesson 7
). If you are not sure of the gender (meaning in context, the 
speaker doesn't know, not that you've forgotten that it's 'der Cheeseburger'), use 'das', like in "Was ist 
das?" (What is that?).

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