Word
Haben Sie morgen frei? Wir wollen einen Film sehen.
Meaning
Are you off tomorrow? We want to watch a film.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Haben Sie morgen frei? Wir wollen einen Film sehen.
ein
a, an (eine)
Sie
you (formal)
haben
to have
wir
we
Questions & Answers about Haben Sie morgen frei? Wir wollen einen Film sehen.
Why is wollen used here if the English translation is "want to"? Doesn't it mean "will"?
Wollen is a classic "false friend." It looks and sounds a bit like the English word "will," but it actually means "to want" or "to intend to." If you want to say what you are doing in the future, you wouldn't use wollen.
Why is sehen at the very end of the sentence Wir wollen einen Film sehen?
This is the standard rule for modal verbs like wollen (to want). The modal verb takes the normal second position in the sentence, and it pushes the main action verb (sehen) all the way to the end in its dictionary form (infinitive).
Why does the sentence say einen Film instead of ein Film?
Film is a masculine noun (der Film). In this sentence, it is the direct object (the thing being watched). For masculine nouns, the word for "a" or "an" changes from ein to einen when it is the direct object. This is known as the accusative case.
Does frei haben literally mean "to have free"?
Yes! Literally it translates to "to have free," but it is the standard German phrase for having time off from work or school. So Haben Sie morgen frei? means "Are you off tomorrow?" or "Do you have tomorrow off?"