We use "es gibt" to express that something exists in a certain location. In this combination, "es gibt" means there is/there are. The phrase does not change whether it is describing one or many things!
If you want to ask whether something exists somewhere, you just swap the word order of "es gibt" (there is/there are) to "gibt es" (is there/are there). The rest of the sentence stays the same.
"Es gibt" is always followed by an object in the accusative case.
Remember: the accusative case is used for the person or thing that is affected by the action in the sentence, which changes the spelling of the article.
When describing a noun in the plural we can remove the article
If we want to express that a certain thing is not there, we add "kein/keine" after "es gibt".
"Kein" and "keine" follow the same pattern as the indefinite articles "ein" and "eine" but mean "none" instead of "a".
Created: 27 Sept 2022
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