Lecture Notes, Lecture 10

One thing:
Think about the sentence:

Meine Mutter schreibt meinem Vater einen Brief.

What, if you want to substitute the Dativergänzung with a personal pronoun? Then you get the sentence:

Meine Mutter schreibt ihm einen Brief.

So, the Dativ- and the Akkusativergänzung swap positions only, if the Akkusativergänzung is replaced by an personal pronoun.

Meine Mutter schreibt ihn meinem Vater.

And do you think it would be good German to say

Sie schreibt ihn ihm.

?
Well, it would be correct. But almost impossible to understand, unless you know the context pretty well. Have a nice recess!

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