Breakdown of Wir haben heute einunddreißig Kilo Tomaten verkauft.
ein
a, an (eine)
und
and
haben
to have
wir
we
heute
today
die Tomate
the tomato
verkaufen
to sell
dreißig
thirty
das Kilo
the kilo
Questions & Answers about Wir haben heute einunddreißig Kilo Tomaten verkauft.
How do you form the number einunddreißig?
In German, numbers from 21 to 99 are written as one single word. You say the ones digit first, then und (and), then the tens digit. So ein-und-dreißig literally means "one-and-thirty". Also, notice we use ein here, dropping the "s" from eins.
Why doesn't Kilo have an 's' for the plural "kilos"?
Where is the word for "of" in Kilo Tomaten?
There isn't one! When talking about amounts or measurements, German simply puts the unit of measurement and the item side by side. "Thirty-one kilos of tomatoes" is just einunddreißig Kilo Tomaten.
Why is verkauft (sold) at the very end of the sentence?
This sentence uses the spoken past tense (the Perfekt). In this tense, the helping verb (haben) takes the normal second position in the sentence, while the past participle (the main action word, verkauft) gets pushed all the way to the end.
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