Breakdown of Der Auftritt findet am Freitag im Stadion statt.
der Freitag
Friday
im
in the (used with months) / in the (contraction of in + dem)
stattfinden
to take place
am
on the / at the
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
das Stadion
the stadium
der Auftritt
the performance
Questions & Answers about Der Auftritt findet am Freitag im Stadion statt.
Why is it am Freitag im Stadion when English usually says "in the stadium on Friday"?
In German, when you have multiple details describing an action, time almost always comes before place. A helpful guideline to remember this is the "TeKaMoLo" rule, which dictates the order of adverbs: Time (Temporal), Reason (Kausal), Manner (Modal), and Place (Lokal). Since am Freitag is the time and im Stadion is the place, the time must come first here.
Why is the word statt hanging out at the very end of the sentence?
The verb for "to take place" is stattfinden, which is a separable verb. In a standard main clause like this one, the conjugated part (findet) takes the second position in the sentence, and the prefix (statt) gets pushed to the very end.
Why are we using the contractions am and im in this sentence?
Both are contractions that use the dative case. am is short for an dem, which is the standard combination used for days of the week. im is short for in dem. Because the performance is happening in a fixed location (answering "where?" rather than "to where?"), the preposition in requires the dative case for the stadium.
If I wanted to emphasize that the event is on Friday, how would the word order change?
You can move the time to the very front of the sentence: Am Freitag findet der Auftritt im Stadion statt. Remember that the conjugated verb (findet) must strictly stay in the second position, so the subject (der Auftritt) simply swaps places with the time and moves right after the verb.
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