Word
Jemand nimmt immer mein Shampoo im Bad!
Meaning
Someone is always taking my shampoo in the bathroom!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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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?