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Nominative: Used when the word is the subject.

Accustive: Used when the word is the direct object.

Dative: Used when the word is the indirect object.

Hmm, its a bit more complicated for that but there is no way i can explain all the rules. I find this the hardest part of german, specialy the dative case..to many rules

o-O English is the easiest language. Way easier than German..why do you think everyone on the world speaks it?

english is known as the hardest language in the world because of all it's rules and exceptions to those rules.
and "everyone on the world speaks it?"
deffinatly not...
Known by whom, exactly?

First of all, English isn't the hardest langauge by any standard.

Our spelling may be a little odd, but French is far less phonetic; Japanese and Chinese have writing systems MUCH more complicated than our spelling.

We have minimal verb conjugations compared to almost any other language.

Our nouns are without class or gender.

We've barely retained anything resembling a grammatical case system.

German has more rules than we do, by a long shot.

French has so many exceptions to its rules that at times, one wonders why they bother to have rules in the first place.

Our pronunciation is fairly mundane, the only sound we make which is the least bit exotic is the 'th' sound.

So tell me, how is English hard?

English is among the most spoken languages in the world, and the most common second language, not everyone speaks it, but something like 2 billion out of the world's 6 point some odd people have at least some English.

I keep hearing people try to claim that English is so difficult to learn only from people who speak it natively!

In English, we've technically got 'whom' for the dative case, but almost noone uses it...
You're a native German speaker, Rikku? That's cool.

Anyhow, on the whole nominative, dative, acusative, genative thing... It helps if you have a firm grasp of grammar in your native language - not just how it works, but the names of things.

The nominative case is the subject. It is the active entity in a sentance.
I went to the store.
You ate my ice cream!
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

The accusative case is the direct object.
John bought a book.
Susan likes flowers.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

The dative is the indirect object.
Kerry gave the papers to him.
He drove the car to school.
Get me to the church on time.

The genative case is generally a weird variant of the posessive.
The Lives of Others.
The book of Mark.

In German, the prepositions can be grouped by the case with which they are associated.
I want to give you lists of them, but I also want to double check to make sure I list them correctly, so check back for that.

lol, I've been learning english since I was 6 (I started with things like Television and stuff)
I'm 12 (I'm young) soo I've been learning english 6 years from now ;D

Genitive is rarely used, mostly when you need to say "of" or "from." I think genitive isn't used as much because "von" can be used instead.