verb adverb

WORD ORDER
• I go home
• I am going home • Ich gehe nach
Hause.
• I do go home
• German has only
one way to
express the
present tense
WORD ORDER
•
•
•
•
Tonight, Gordon is going to the movie theatre.
Gordon is going to the movie theatre tonight.
Tonight, Gordon goes to the movie theatre.
Gordon goes to the movie theatre tonight.
WORD ORDER
• Tonight, Gordon is going to the movie theatre.
• Heute abend geht Gordon ins Kino.
• Gordon
• (Ins Kino
geht heute abend ins Kino.
geht Gordon heute abend.)
The cardinal rule of word order in German is to
put the verb in second position.
Second position does not mean second word,
but second grammatical element.
WORD ORDER
• In the summer, I ride my bike to the university
• Im Sommer fahre ich mit dem Fahrrad
zur Uni.
• Ich
fahre im Sommer mit dem
Fahrrad zur Uni.
• Parts of the sentence are arranged in the
following order: time - manner - place
WORD ORDER
• In the winter, I take the streetcar (die Straenbahn)
to the university
•
•
•
•
•
Im Winter
nehme
ich
die Straßenbahn
zur Uni.
WORD ORDER
• In the winter, I take the streetcar to the university
•
•
•
•
•
Ich
nehme
im Winter
die Straßenbahn
zur Uni.
verb adverb
gern = adverb
He drives fast
The party started early
gern => to like (verb) to do s.th.
I like to play Basketball
I play (to like) Basketball
to play=spielen
Ich spiele gern Basketball
Er sieht gern Filme.
Sie hört gern Jazz
Es gibt
• The expression “es gibt” (from the verb “geben”
= to give) means “there exists”, but is usually
represented in English by
• “there is” (singular) or “there are” (plural)
• Es gibt nur eine Universität in Wolfville.
(There is only one University in
Wolfville.)
(There are many restaurants in
Wolfville.
• Es gibt viele Restaurants in Wolfville.