Word
Das Restaurant kauft zweiundfünfzig Liter Wein.
Meaning
The restaurant is buying fifty-two liters of wine.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Das Restaurant kauft zweiundfünfzig Liter Wein.
und
and
kaufen
to buy
zwei
two
das Restaurant
the restaurant
Questions & Answers about Das Restaurant kauft zweiundfünfzig Liter Wein.
How does the number zweiundfünfzig work?
In German, numbers from 21 to 99 are built "backwards" compared to English. You say the ones digit first (zwei for two), then und (and), and finally the tens digit (fünfzig for fifty). It is all written together as one single word: zweiundfünfzig (literally "two-and-fifty").
Since the restaurant is buying 52 of them, why isn't it "Liters"?
In German, masculine and neuter units of measurement like Liter, Kilo, or Gramm stay in their singular form when they come right after a number. So it is just zweiundfünfzig Liter, never "zweiundfünfzig Liters".
Where is the word for "of" in "liters of wine"?
German completely skips the word "of" when talking about quantities and measurements. You just put the unit directly next to the item being measured: Liter Wein (liters of wine), or eine Tasse Kaffee (a cup of coffee).
Why does the verb kaufen (to buy) become kauft here?
Because Das Restaurant is a singular neuter noun, it acts just like "it". For the "he, she, or it" forms, German verbs usually drop the -en ending and add a -t. This turns kaufen into kauft.