Word
Diese Burg ist berühmt und sehr hoch.
Meaning
This castle is famous and very high.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Diese Burg ist berühmt und sehr hoch.
sein
to be
und
and
sehr
very
dieser
this / that (fem.: diese, neut.: dieses)
Questions & Answers about Diese Burg ist berühmt und sehr hoch.
The adjective here is hoch (high). How would I say the castle is "higher" or "the highest"?
Hoch has an irregular comparative form, which is the focus of this lesson! To say "higher", you add an umlaut and drop the "c" to make höher. For "the highest", the "c" comes back: am höchsten.
Why use hoch here instead of groß to say a building is tall?
Use hoch when you want to emphasize vertical height, like a tall tower, a mountain, or a castle reaching into the sky. Use groß (big/large) to talk about the overall size of a building. Keep in mind that for the height of people, you must always use groß, never hoch.
Why don't berühmt and hoch have adjective endings in this sentence?
Adjectives in German only take endings when they come directly before a noun (like eine berühmte Burg). When they come after the verb, as they do here, they stay in their basic, dictionary form. Fun fact: If you put hoch directly before a noun, it also drops the "c", becoming die hohe Burg (the high castle).
Why is it Diese Burg and not Dieser or Dieses?