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Questions & Answers about Wer hat das Ticket?
Wait, doesn't wer mean "where"?
It is a very common mix-up! In German, wer actually means "who". If you want to ask "where", the German word is wo. They look and sound like they should mean the opposite of their English equivalents, so watch out for this false friend!
Why do we use hat after wer?
When you ask a question with wer (who), you usually treat it like a third-person singular subject, just like "he", "she", or "it". So, we use the matching verb form hat (has) rather than habe (have), exactly like in English: "Who has the ticket?"
Is the verb always the second word in a question like this?
Yes! In W-questions (questions starting with a question word like wer, was, or wo), the question word comes first, and the verb must come strictly in the second position. Here, wer is in position 1, and the verb hat is in position 2.
"Ticket" is an English word. Do we still capitalize it in German?
Yes! In German, absolutely all nouns are capitalized, no matter what language they originally came from. Because it is a thing, it is treated as a regular German noun and written as das Ticket.