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Originally Posted by ArcheM
Oof, okay, this autocorrect thing - I suppose I'll have to stop auto-correcting it myself (  ) to avoid repeating the same conversation.
Well, actually, word order is deadly simple: the verb is always in the second place, everything else is pretty much free game. You'll see the subject, objects, adverbs... adjectives, I suppose, in the first place, shifting the rest of the sentence forward.
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Heute ist es warm.
adverb verb subject
Braun ist der Bär.
adjective verb subject
Den Hund hat meine Freundin.
direct object verb subject
Of course, then you come to nuances, as to which part of the verb you take, when it's a complex verb structure, like the past perfect. And it works differently for questions and for subordinate and other clauses. But don't worry about that for now. It's just to prevent you from getting more confused later by all these new rules suddenly appearing. |
So the verb is always in second place, but the next lesson was about putting the verb at the end, it didn't really explain much, the example sentence was, "Wir gehen nicht einkaufen, well wir kein Geld haben". And the verb gehen is in second place but the second part of the sentence beginning with "well" the verb is at the end, but it wasn't explained very well at all. I guess it happens with dependent clauses. It did give examples of what they called subordinating conjunctions, words like dass, well (because), damit, obwohl, bevor, and wenn (which they're translating to "when" but everytime I look it up it translates to "if"). And it says that they always end with the verb. I'm so confused on what this all means, it like they teach you one thing that seems concrete then its like no hers another way to do this or as in verb endings saying verbs end in -en then you see some ending in just -e or -st with no further explanation as to why that is. Verbs are confusing period.