Genitive Prepositions: trotz, während, wegen, statt
நான்காம் வேற்றுமையுடன் இணையும் முன்னிடைச்சொற்கள்
A handful of formal prepositions demand the genitive case you learned back in Lesson 27 — completing the case-preposition system you started building in A2.
Grammar Comparison
இலக்கண ஒப்பீடு
The genitive's main job outside of possession
trotz des Regens (despite the rain — Regen takes genitive -s)
மழை இருந்தாலும் (concessive suffix -ஆலும், not a case-marked noun)
Outside of showing possession, the genitive case's biggest remaining job in modern German is following this small set of prepositions: trotz ('despite'), während ('during'), wegen ('because of'), and statt ('instead of'). Tamil doesn't route these meanings through its case system at all — trotz's meaning, for instance, overlaps with the -ஆலும் concessive suffix from the concessive clauses lesson rather than a case-marked noun. Treat this short preposition list as the genitive's practical payoff: once you know des Mannes, these four prepositions are just new contexts for a case ending you've already learned.
Vocabulary
சொற்கள்
| German | Pronunciation | Tamil | English |
|---|---|---|---|
| trotz (+Gen.) | trots | இருந்தாலும்irundhālum | despite |
| während (+Gen.) | VAY-rent | காலத்தில்kālaththil | during |
| wegen (+Gen.) | VAY-gen | காரணமாகkāraṇamāga | because of |
| statt (+Gen.) | shtaht | -க்கு பதிலாக-kku padhilāga | instead of |