{"id":1833,"date":"2011-01-26T22:42:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2011-01-26T22:42:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T21:42:10","slug":"there-isthere-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/1833\/there-isthere-are","title":{"rendered":"There is\/There are"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In this blog, we\u2019ll have a look at two important phrases which are used on a daily basis. One of them is the expression: There is<\/strong> and the other one is the plural form There are<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There is \u2013 Es gibt<\/h3>\n

The expression “Es gibt” is always followed by the accusative case. The object is either singular or plural.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong>
\nEs gibt kein besseres Auto. \u2013 There is no better car.
\nOr:<\/strong> Es gibt keine besseren Eltern – There are no better parents.<\/p>\n

“Es gibt” is also used when describing things to do with the more general natural events:<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong> Es gibt sicher ein Gewitter. \u2013 It\u2019s definitely going to thunder.<\/p>\n

As in English, when you’re using the phrase “Es gibt” in a sentence, the words switch position.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong> Was gibt es f\u00fcr L\u00e4den? \u2013 What kind of shops are there?<\/p>\n

There are \u2013 Es sind<\/h3>\n

The expression “es sind” is always used in the plural form and is followed by the nominative case.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong> Es sind nicht viele Kunden da. \u2013 There are hardly any customers there.<\/p>\n

\u201cEs sind\u201d can also go into the past tense with “sind” changing to the past tense form “war”.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong>
\nEs war kein Lehrer in der Schule. \u2013 There were no teachers at school.
\nEs war einmal ein Prinz\u2026. \u2013 Once upon a time there was a prince…<\/p>\n

Tip:<\/strong> The expression “es gibt” is used more often in the German language than “es sind”. In most cases “es gibt” can be used instead of “es sind”, but it can affect the sentence structure.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/strong>
\nEs sind nicht viele Kunden da or<\/b> Es gibt nicht viele Kunden.<\/p>\n

In the above example, you cannot use da<\/strong> with es gibt<\/strong> as the sentence in itself is accusative and is therefore already talking about the main object of the sentence. When you use es sind<\/strong>, you are just introducing the sentence subject (viele Kunden<\/strong>), therefore you still need to specify where<\/em> you are talking about (da<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this blog, we\u2019ll have a look at two important phrases which are used on a daily basis. One of them is the expression: There is and the other one is the plural form There are. There is \u2013 Es gibt The expression “Es gibt” is always followed by the accusative case. The object is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jabbalab.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}