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Duolingo gave me two sentences where I don’t know why dich is in the first one but dir is in the second one.

1. Max will sich zwischen mich und dich sitzen.

2. Warum sitz Hans Exmann zwischen dem Hund und dir?

I may be confused because I’m using English rules of “between” being a preposition, and so I see both of these examples as being in a prepositional phrase (i.e., accusative case).

Could someone explain this? Vielen Dank!