While German does follow an SVO word order like English, it's much less rigid, allowing us to move elements of the sentence around. The word order of German on the other hand, is much more flexible than English. Now we get.Īs you can see, rearranging the word order of an English sentence, actually changes the meaning of the sentence itself. But what if we were to try and change the word order of this sentence? Let's swap the object and the subject around. We can clearly see the SVO word structure used in English, even with the adverb attached at the very end there. First, let's take a look at an example in English. Let's study this aspect in a little more detail. In the previous section, you learned that English and German both use the same SVO word order. Understanding basic word order will allow you to string together the few German words you've learned to create basic sentences and to start communicating in German. This isn't perfect, but it's a good place to get you started. This essentially means that you can create basic German sentences by exchanging English words, for German words. The basic word order for German then, is subject, verb, object, or SVO for short.Īs you can see, English and German both have the same word order. If we break down the German sentence, we get the subject Ich meaning “I,” then comes the verb esse meaning "eat,” and finally we have the object Apfel meaning "apple.” Like before, let's remove the article to keep it simple, so we're just left with the words. Now let's compare that same sentence "I ate an apple,” in German. This is the basic word order for sentences in English. If we break down the English sentence "I ate apple,” we can see that the subject "I" is presented first, followed by the verb "ate,” and then finally the object "apple" is positioned last. The basic Word Order for English is subject, verb, object, or SVO for short. "Word Order" refers to the order in which words are structured to form a sentence in a given language.Ĭonsider the English sentence "I ate an apple." But first, let's remove the article "an" here for simplicity, so we're just left with "I ate apple." In this lesson, you'll learn the basics of German grammar.
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