Is genetive case still used in german ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_pronouns

Wiki said people use dative instead of genetive ,is that right?

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The genitive personal pronouns in the table above find very seldom use in modern German and are nearly always made obsolete by modern formulations. There is a well-known German saying "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" (The dative case is the death of the genitive case), referring to the frequent colloquial replacement of traditionally genitive formulations with dative formulations (e.g. "statt mir" instead of "statt meiner"). Genitive personal pronouns may be used for the genitive object ("gedenke meiner": commemorate me). Archaically, the pronoun form without -er can be used, e.g.Vergißmeinnicht (instead of: "vergiß meiner nicht" or—vergessen takes the accusative as well—"vergiß mich nicht" in more modern form). Another use is after prepositions requiring the genitive case, e.g. "seitens meiner" ("on my part", more typically "meinerseits").

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Is genetive case still used in german ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_pronouns

Wiki said people use dative instead of genetive ,is that right?

Quote :
The genitive personal pronouns in the table above find very seldom use in modern German and are nearly always made obsolete by modern formulations. There is a well-known German saying "Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod" (The dative case is the death of the genitive case), referring to the frequent colloquial replacement of traditionally genitive formulations with dative formulations (e.g. "statt mir" instead of "statt meiner"). Genitive personal pronouns may be used for the genitive object ("gedenke meiner": commemorate me). Archaically, the pronoun form without -er can be used, e.g.Vergißmeinnicht (instead of: "vergiß meiner nicht" or—vergessen takes the accusative as well—"vergiß mich nicht" in more modern form). Another use is after prepositions requiring the genitive case, e.g. "seitens meiner" ("on my part", more typically "meinerseits").

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Well, it is true that it is used lesser and lesser in contemporary spoken and even written German, but you need to learn it anyways , in order to be able to read and understand older texts for example and still many times  official documents and articles. It is a beautiful form , that sounds a bit complicated for newer generations ,who are dealing mostly with the internet language ,that is shortened and abbreviated. It is much easier to use Dative instead . The commentator is correct though in his observation. Using the Genetive is declining specially in the spoken language , yet it has to be learned and preserved as the original language !

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Well, the Wikipedia entry is not wrong. However, for me personally, not using the genitive case shows that you haven't learned the language properly, no matter whether you are a native speaker or not. I will correct this whenever I hear it, even if it is a native speaker who makes the mistake. But that is only my personal opinion in this matter. There are definitely people who care less about the genitive because they feel it is the most difficult case in German (another statement I disagree with), so they take the "easy road" and use the dative instead. I'd recommend learning genitive anyway, it always looks good if you know the proper way of speaking instead of taking the easy road. :)