Breakdown of Wir organisieren morgen eine Tournee in Frankreich.
ein
a, an (eine)
in
in
wir
we
morgen
tomorrow
Frankreich
France
organisieren
to organize
die Tournee
the tour
Questions & Answers about Wir organisieren morgen eine Tournee in Frankreich.
Why does morgen come before in Frankreich in this sentence?
This is the classic 'Time before Place' rule in German. When a sentence has multiple details, time (morgen) almost always comes before location (in Frankreich). You might see this called the TeKaMoLo rule, which is a helpful acronym for the standard order of adverbs: Time, Cause, Manner, Place.
Why is the object eine Tournee placed right in the middle of the time and place?
In German, time words like morgen like to jump in early, right after the conjugated verb. Indefinite objects (like eine Tournee, meaning a tour) usually come after the time information, but before the place (in Frankreich). So the flow is: Verb -> Time -> Object -> Place.
The English translation says 'are organizing', but organisieren is simple present tense. Why not use a future tense?
German does not have a continuous '-ing' form like English does. Furthermore, German frequently uses the simple present tense to talk about the future, as long as there is a time word like morgen (tomorrow) in the sentence to make it completely clear that the action has not happened yet.
Why do we use in for 'in France'? Shouldn't it be nach Frankreich?
You use nach when you are traveling to a country, which describes a destination. Here, the event is happening locally inside France, answering the question 'where?' rather than 'where to?'. For most countries, 'in' is exactly the same as in English: in Frankreich.
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