Make changes at home: prepositions and verbs of location and movement

Short [u] is pronounced as in 'Punkt' and long [u] as in 'du'; short [ü] sounds as in 'fünf' and long [ü] as in 'Tür'. Dual-case prepositions take the accusative case with movement and the dative case for location. Three placement verbs ‘stellen’, ‘setzen’, ‘legen’ describe putting something somewhere, and take the accusative case. Placement verbs can also be used reflexively for animate objects, when the sentence's subject and object are the same. When items are already in position, we use equivalent position verbs 'stehen', 'sitzen' and 'liegen' with the dative.