How can I hear the dative after German prepositions?

Example in context

Ich fahre mit dem Bus. Sie wohnt bei ihrer Mutter. — I travel by bus. She lives with her mother.

Mit dem Bus combines mit with a masculine dative phrase. Bei ihrer Mutter combines bei with a feminine dative phrase. The words mit and bei are useful signals; do not translate each ending by itself.

Try it with input

When you hear mit, pause after the noun phrase and repeat the complete chunk. Compare mit dem Bus with der Bus. Add only a few chunks at a time, with their meanings.

Not all prepositions take the dative. Some take accusative, and two-way prepositions use either accusative or dative according to meaning.

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