Personal Pronouns - Genitive (2. case)

Here are the personal pronouns in the second case (genitive):

Form	German	Phonetic Script	English Object Form
polite form	Ihrer	['i:ərɐ]	you (polite form)
1. person singular	meiner	['mainɐ]	me
2. person singular (familiar)	deiner	['dainɐ]	you
3. person singular	seiner	['zainɐ]	him
3. person singular	ihrer	['i:ərɐ]	her
3. person singular	seiner	['zainɐ]	it
1. person plural	unser	['ʊnzɐ]	us
2. person plural	euer	['ɔyɐ]	you
3. person plural	ihrer	['i:ərɐ]	them

These genitive forms are hardly used. So it is not really necessary to know them. Here is one example:

German	Phonetic Script	English
Ich gedenke seiner.	[ɪç gə'dɛŋkə 'zainɐ]	I remember him.

While "Ich" is the personal pronoun in the nominative case because it is is the acting part of the sentence, "seiner" is the pronoun in the genitive case. In German we say:

German	Phonetic Script	English
jemandes gedenken	['je:mandəs gə'dɛŋkən]	to remember someone

While you only have one object form in English, we use the genitive form in German. The respective question would be: Whose do we remember?