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Mar 14, 2023 · You’re right, da cannot come after the verb in the subordinate clause (nothing can, really). The subordinate clause corresponding to “Sie hat eine große Wohnung da.” is “…, weil sie eine große Wohnung da hat.”
Conjunctions are joining words. They link two clauses to make them into one. Some of them affect the word order: coordinating conjunctions are easy as they do not change the word order ...
da - as, because. damit - so that, in order that. seitdem - since. als ob. Sie sieht aus, als ob sie krank ist. - She looks as if she is ill. bis.
Here are some of the main subordinating conjunctions. They send the verb to the end.
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So, da started out as there in a sense of not here. And it still has this meaning. 1. Das Kino ist dahinten. 2. The cinema is backthere. 1. Letzten Sommer war ich an der Ostsee. Aber dawar es mir zu voll. 2. Last summer, I was at the Baltic Sea. But it was too crowded for me there. 1. Sind wir schon da? 2. Are we thereyet? In all three examples, th...
I said in the intro that da doesn’t only meanthere, but also here. So imagine you sit in German class waiting for your teacher Hans and then all of a sudden, I walk in the door. 1. “Hans ist heute nicht da, ich bin seine Vertretung.” 2. “Hans isn’t here today, I am his substitute.” We could also usehier, but usingda is WAY more idiomatic in a conte...
You might remember that I called da a verbal index finger in the first segment. Well… this verbal index finger can be used to point at pretty much anything. A prime example for this are the da-words. I have talked about those in a separate article in detail (link below) so I’ll keep it brief here. Da-words can point to things (or replace them if yo...
And I think it has to do with the fact that Germans have a general love for anything “location” – a love that shines through everywhere in the language. The question word wo, for example, means where so it asks for a location. But you can find examples in abundance in which wois not really related to location. For one thing, there are the wo-words ...
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Feb 4, 2022 · German ‘da words’ are an extremely useful group of words, but can take some getting used to. Da- is a prefix which appears in front of a number of prepositions. They are used to refer back to an object which was mentioned earlier in a sentence.
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Sigh, the da-words … darauf, darum, daraus, dafür and so on. The da-words are basically a twisted way to combine a preposition with an article. Instead of saying of that or about that like a sane language would do in German you say thereof and thereabout like you’re some sort of poet or something.