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Meine Füße sind müde.

Meine Füße sind müde.
My feet are tired.
From Lesson 62:Parts of the body·German

Breakdown of Meine Füße sind müde.

sein
to be
müde
tired
mein
my
der Fuß
the foot

Questions & Answers about Meine Füße sind müde.

Why is the ending on Meine an -e?
Füße is a plural noun. When plural nouns are the subject of a sentence (in the nominative case), possessive words like mein must take an -e ending, making it meine.
What is the singular form of Füße, and how is this plural formed?
The singular is der Fuß (the foot). To form the plural, German often adds an umlaut over the main vowel and an -e to the end of the word, which turns Fuß into Füße.
Since Füße is plural, why doesn't the adjective müde have a plural ending?
In German, adjectives only change their endings when they are placed directly in front of a noun (for example, meine müden Füße). Because müde comes after the verb sind here, it stays in its basic, unchanged dictionary form.

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