I came across this sentence which has 2 datives:
Er hilft seinem Nachbarn bei der Reparatur des Autos.
Is it possible to do so?
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Sign up to join this communityI came across this sentence which has 2 datives:
Er hilft seinem Nachbarn bei der Reparatur des Autos.
Is it possible to do so?
Sure it is - one of the datives is caused by the verb "helfen" that rules the dative, the other one by the preposition "bei" which wants the dative as well.
There is no rule that limits the number of cases in a sentence and you can add more, especially when you use prepositions. Want more datives?:
Er hilft seinem Freund bei der Reparatur des Autos mit dem größten Hammer, den er im Werkzeugkasten finden konnte.
The phrase is grammatically correct. But there is only one "Dativobjekt".
Er: Subjekt
hilft: Prädikat
seinem Nachbarn: Dativobjekt
bei der Reparatur des Autos: Adverbiale Bestimmung