WORD ORDER

1
WORD ORDER

• I go home
• I am going home
• I do go home

• Ich gehe nach Hause.
• German has only one way to express the present
  tense

2
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.

3
WORD ORDER

• Tonight, Gordon is going to the movie theatre.
• Heute abend geht Gordon ins Kino.
• Gordon geht heute abend ins Kino.
• (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.

4
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

5
WORD ORDER

• In the winter, I take the streetcar to the
  university
• Im Winter
• nehme
• ich
• die Straßenbahn
• zur Uni.

6
WORD ORDER

• In the winter, I take the streetcar to the
  university
• Ich
• nehme
• im Winter
• die Straßenbahn
• zur Uni.

7
verb adverb

• gern adverb
• He drives fast
• The party started early
• gern gt to like (verb) to do s.th.
• I like to play Basketball
• I play (to like) Basketball
• Ich spiele gern Basketball
• Er sieht gern Filme.
• Sie hört gern Jazz

8
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.)
• Es gibt viele Restaurants in Wolfville.
  (There are many restaurants in
  Wolfville.)