Word
Wer nimmt an der Feier teil?
Meaning
Who is participating in the celebration?
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Wer nimmt an der Feier teil?
wer
who
die Feier
the celebration
teilnehmen an
to participate in
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Questions & Answers about Wer nimmt an der Feier teil?
Why do we use an here to say 'in the celebration'?
The verb for 'to participate' or 'to take part' is teilnehmen. In German, this verb requires the fixed preposition an to indicate what you are participating in. It is best to memorize them together as a pair: teilnehmen an.
If the word for celebration is feminine (die Feier), why does it say der Feier here?
The fixed phrase teilnehmen an always requires the noun that follows to be in the dative case. Because Feier is a feminine noun, its article changes from die to der in the dative case.
Why is the verb split into nimmt and teil?
The full verb is teilnehmen, which is a separable verb. In a question like this, the conjugated core verb (nimmt) takes the standard verb position right after the question word, and the separable prefix (teil) gets kicked all the way to the end of the sentence.
Why is the verb conjugated as nimmt?
The question word wer (who) is always treated as a third-person singular subject, just like er, sie, or es. Because nehmen is a stem-changing verb, the vowel shifts and it drops the 'h' in the third-person singular, becoming nimmt.