{"id":851,"date":"2010-04-27T22:09:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2013-09-29T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T10:40:14","slug":"german-word-order-and-sentence-structure-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/851\/german-word-order-and-sentence-structure-part-1","title":{"rendered":"German Word Order and Sentence Structure Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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German Word Order<\/h2>\n

We have put together this quick reference guide to help you understand the word order in typical German sentences. This is one of the biggest aspects to learning German and one of the first challenges to get your head round. Practice makes perfect and soon the word order will be natural to you but in the meantime use this reference guide below to help keep on top of it. Learn and enjoy the German language with Jabba<\/span><\/strong>lab<\/span><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Sentences with a subject, direct object and one verb:<\/h3>\n

The subject (S)<\/span><\/strong> of the sentence comes first followed by the verb (V)<\/span><\/strong> and the direct object (DO)<\/span><\/strong> at the end.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong>
\nYour father plays the piano. \u21e8 Dein Vater (S)<\/span> spielt (V)<\/span> Klavier (DO)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Sentences with a subject, an indirect object, direct object and one verb:<\/h3>\n

Here the subject (S)<\/span><\/strong> of the sentence comes first, followed by the verb (V)<\/span><\/strong>, then the indirect object (IO)<\/span><\/strong> and finally the direct object (DO)<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong>
\nI gave the woman the apple. \u21e8 Ich (S)<\/span> gab (V)<\/span> der Frau (IO)<\/span> den Apfel (DO)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

He gave the people money. \u21e8 Er (S)<\/span> gab (V)<\/span> den Leuten (IO)<\/span> Geld (DO)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Two exceptions to this is when the direct object is a personal pronoun (e.g. ich, du, mich, dich etc.) or when you want to put extra emphasis on the indirect object. When this happens the direct object comes first, followed by the indirect object.<\/p>\n

If the object is a masculine noun, e.g. der Apfel, it would be:
\nI gave it to her. \u21e8 Ich (S)<\/span> gab (V)<\/span> ihn (DO)<\/span> ihr (IO)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

If it\u2018s a feminine noun, e.g. die Tasse, it would be:
\nI gave it to her. \u21e8 Ich (S)<\/span> gab (V)<\/span> sie (DO)<\/span> ihr (IO)<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I gave the apple to the woman. \u21e8 Ich (S)<\/span> gab (V)<\/span> den Apfel (DO)<\/span> der Frau (IO)<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

German Word Order We have put together this quick reference guide to help you understand the word order in typical German sentences. This is one of the biggest aspects to learning German and one of the first challenges to get your head round. Practice makes perfect and soon the word order will be natural to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15217,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/15217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}