01. Intro
02. Wir sind eine Familie
03. Dictionary for the text
04. The role of personal pronouns
05. Personal pronoun in practice
06. Remember
07. German personal pronouns
08. Example sentences with the personal pronoun in the nominative case
09. Connect the word pairs
10. Match the article
11. Build the words
12. Put the word in the appropriate place
13. Put the word in the appropriate place
14. Build the sentences
15. Put the word in the appropriate place
16. Build the sentences
Personal pronouns are used to refer to people or things. They play the role of the subject in a sentence and can replace one or more persons. Pronouns must match the number, person and grammatical gender of the noun they replace.
Attention:
You can say:
Thomas ist ein sympatischer Junge.
Thomas is a nice boy.
or
Er ist ein sympatischer Junge.
He is a nice boy.
Without a personal pronoun or mentioning a specific person, the sentence is not built correctly. The exceptions are sentences with the impersonal construction man and nominal sentences (sentence without a finite verb).
In German, you are not allowed to leave out a personal pronoun in a sentence! If you want to build a correct sentence, you must remember the person performing the action or replace it with a personal pronoun.