I started studying German few months ago. I started reading "Der Nussknacker (Niveau Eins)". I found this
Ich bedanke mich
but I can not really understand what does it mean and its construction.
Why nominative + verb + accusative?
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Sign up to join this communityI started studying German few months ago. I started reading "Der Nussknacker (Niveau Eins)". I found this
Ich bedanke mich
but I can not really understand what does it mean and its construction.
Why nominative + verb + accusative?
It just so happens that the accusative declination of the pronoun ich is also the reflexive pronoun for ich.
The verb which you and many other German-learners perceive to be bedanken is actually sich bedanken, indicating it is reflexive and requires a reflexive pronoun.
"Ich bedanke mich" implies that you are saying "I thank you," even though the sentence doesn't contain an object.
If you wanted to be formal, you could say:
Ich bedanke mich bei dir.
It is always like:
Ich bedanke mich bei Ihnen (someone) für die Hilfe (something)
So you know that the someone (bei) is in Dativ and the something (für) is Akkusativ.