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Metamucil
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Studies: German
| Message 33 of 33 20 March 2010 at 1:45am | IP Logged |
IronFist wrote:
spanishlearner wrote:
arkady wrote:
But tomorrow, I have a lot of work.
becomes:
Aber morgen, habe ich viel arbeit.
Why 'habe ich' instead of 'ich habe'? |
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In German verbs come in second position. 'Aber morgen' counts as one unit. |
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This.
I remember the day I learned this in German class. Our teacher wrote on the board:
"Heute ist das Wetter kalt"
I asked "didn't you forget the question mark at the end?" I thought it was asking "today is the weather cold?"
Then he explained German is a "verb second" language.
All of the following are the same:
[Heute] [ist] [das Wetter] [kalt]
[Das Wetter] [ist] [kalt] [heute]
And I believe you could even say:
[kalt] [ist] [das Wetter] [heute]
Those are all STATEMENTS because the verb is in the second position (I grouped the positions into brackets).
Questions put the verb first:
Ist das Wetter kalt heute? = is the weather cold today?
Ist heute das Wetter kalt? = is the weather cold today? (I think you can order the words this way, although it might sound funny)
Once I got that, I was like oh, this all makes sense now.
(I took German 7 years ago. My apologies if anything here is wrong. But the verb going second is right; I remember that :) ) |
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[Das Wetter] [ist] [kalt] [heute]
I believe technically the time (heute) should come right after the verb in a statement sentance.
Das Wetter ist heute kalt.
I believe this rule to be true for grammatically correct German --- although I do see word order mixed from time to time in informal speech and writing.
Ich gehe morgen auf die Bank.
Ich werde Donnerstag nach Berlin fahren.
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