Word
Besuchst du mich heute?
Meaning
Are you visiting me today?
Part of speech
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Questions & Answers about Besuchst du mich heute?
Why is the word for "me" mich here instead of ich?
mich is the accusative (direct object) form of ich (I). In this sentence, du (you) is the subject doing the visiting, and you are the person receiving the action. Verbs like besuchen (to visit) act directly on someone, so that person takes the accusative case.
Why does the verb Besuchst come at the very beginning of the sentence?
To ask a simple yes/no question in German, you just move the verb to the first position. A normal statement would be Du besuchst mich heute (You are visiting me today). Swapping the subject (du) and the verb (besuchst) instantly turns it into a question!
Where is the word for "are" in the German sentence?
German does not have an "-ing" tense (present continuous) like English does. The single conjugated verb besuchst means both "do you visit" and "are you visiting". You never translate the "are" separately when talking about an action happening right now.
Could I change the word order and say "Besuchst du heute mich"?
People would understand you, but it sounds unnatural. In German sentence structure, short pronoun objects like mich, dich, or ihn are very "light" and almost always jump in front of time words like heute (today).