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gehören: to belong to — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

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gehören

to belong to

to belong to someone

IPA/ɡəˈhøːʁən/

Primary stress is marked in IPA.

gehören: to belong to

Meaning 1neutral · 90%

to belong to someone

Gehört die Tasche Ihnen?

Der rote Stift gehört Anna.

Das Fahrrad hat früher meinem Bruder gehört.

German uses dative for the owner: mir, dir, ihm, ihr, uns.

Das gehört mir. — That belongs to me.jemandem gehören — to belong to someone

Die Tasche gehört ich.

Die Tasche gehört mir.

Use the dative pronoun mir, not ich.

With gehören, the thing is the subject and the owner is dative: Der Schlüssel gehört mir.

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Which sentence is correct?

The owner is dative: Das Buch gehört mir. Imperative forms are not normally used.