Breakdown of Wir besuchen das Museum und das Theater.
und
and
wir
we
besuchen
to visit
das Museum
the museum
Questions & Answers about Wir besuchen das Museum und das Theater.
The English translation uses "are visiting", but where is the word for "are" in the German sentence?
German doesn't have an "-ing" form (present continuous) like English does. The single verb besuchen covers both "we visit" and "we are visiting".
This lesson is about the modal verb wollen (to want). How would we change this sentence to say "We want to visit..."?
You would say Wir wollen das Museum und das Theater besuchen. The modal verb wollen takes the normal second position, and the main verb besuchen gets pushed to the very end of the sentence in its basic dictionary form.
Are Museum and Theater in the accusative case here since we are visiting them?
Yes! Because they are the direct objects being visited, they are in the accusative case. Since both are neuter nouns, their article das looks exactly the same in the accusative as it does in the basic nominative case.
Can I drop the second das and just say das Museum und Theater?
In English we often say "the museum and theater", but German strongly prefers keeping the article in front of every noun. It is much more natural to say das Museum und das Theater.