Breakdown of Wir wollten immer ein Zimmer mit Meerblick und WLAN.
ein
a, an (eine)
und
and
wir
we
das Zimmer
the room
immer
always
wollen
to want
mit
with
das WLAN
the Wi-Fi
der Meerblick
the sea view
Questions & Answers about Wir wollten immer ein Zimmer mit Meerblick und WLAN.
How would I use this lesson's grammar to ask 'What kind of room did you want?'
You would ask, Was für ein Zimmer wolltet ihr? Because Zimmer (room) is a neuter noun and is the direct object (accusative case) of the sentence, the ending for ein does not change, keeping the phrase as was für ein.
Why does this sentence use wollten instead of the spoken past tense?
Wollten is the simple past of the modal verb wollen (to want). While conversational German usually prefers the spoken past for regular verbs, modal verbs are a major exception. Germans almost always use the simple past forms for them, even in casual speech.
Since mit is a dative preposition, why don't Meerblick and WLAN look like they are in the dative case?
You are right that mit forces the following nouns into the dative case! However, because these specific nouns are used without articles (like dem or einem) in this sentence, there is no article to change. The nouns themselves do not change their spellings here, so the dative case is basically invisible.
How is the word Meerblick formed?
It is a classic German compound noun made from das Meer (the sea) and der Blick (the view). Since the final word in a compound noun determines its overall gender, it becomes der Meerblick.
What is WLAN and how do you pronounce it?
It is the standard German term for Wi-Fi. It stands for Wireless Local Area Network and is pronounced as a single word: veh-lahn.
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