Breakdown of Jemand nimmt immer mein Shampoo im Bad!
in
in
immer
always
nehmen
to take
mein
my
das Bad
the bathroom
jemand
someone
das Shampoo
the shampoo
Questions & Answers about Jemand nimmt immer mein Shampoo im Bad!
Why is it mein Shampoo and not meins Shampoo?
The current lesson focuses on possessive pronouns that replace a noun entirely, like meins (mine). But here, the noun Shampoo is still in the sentence. Because mein sits right in front of the noun it belongs to, it acts as a regular possessive word and takes the standard neuter accusative form, which has no extra ending: mein. If you dropped the word Shampoo, you would use the replacement pronoun: Jemand nimmt immer meins! (Someone is always taking mine!).
Why is the verb spelled nimmt?
The infinitive verb is nehmen (to take), which is an irregular stem-changing verb. Since jemand (someone) acts as a third-person singular subject (just like he, she, or it), the vowel changes from e to i, and the h turns into an m. This gives us nimmt.
Why does the word immer go before mein Shampoo?
In German, adverbs of time like immer (always) usually come right after the conjugated verb and before the direct object. The direct object here is the thing being taken: mein Shampoo.
Why is it im Bad?
The word im is a short combination of in dem. The preposition in is a two-way preposition. Because the action is happening at a fixed location (inside the bathroom) rather than showing movement to a new destination, we use the dative case. The dative form for the neuter noun das Bad is dem Bad, giving us in dem Bad, which shortens to im Bad.
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