Today we’ll be talking about the VERB + ACCUSATIVE construction where a verb is followed by a noun phrase in accusative case. Constructions like that are common in both English and German. Especially with verbs of senses:
| sehen | to see |
| hören | to hear |
| fühlen | to feel |
| spüren | to sense, to feel |
Some English examples are:
I saw her walk across the street.
She heard me knock on the door.
And now some German ones:
| Ich sah den Mann schlafen. | I saw the man sleep / sleeping. |
| Man hört die Frau schön singen. | One can hear the woman sing / singing beautifully. |
| Sie spürte die Temperatur steigen. | I felt the temperature rise / rising. |
| Er fühlte sein Herz schlagen. | He felt his heart beat / beating. |
