Word
Wir kommunizieren miteinander und besiegen den Gegner.
Meaning
We communicate with each other and defeat the opponent.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Wir kommunizieren miteinander und besiegen den Gegner.
und
and
wir
we
der
who, which, that (relative pronoun; die, das)
miteinander
with each other
Questions & Answers about Wir kommunizieren miteinander und besiegen den Gegner.
What exactly is miteinander and how is it formed?
miteinander means "with each other" or "together". It is formed by combining the preposition mit (with) and the reciprocal pronoun einander (each other). In German, whenever a preposition is used with einander, they fuse into a single word rather than staying as two separate words.
Could I say mit uns instead of miteinander?
You could, but it changes the nuance. Wir kommunizieren mit uns can sound like "we communicate with ourselves," whereas miteinander clearly means "with each other" (reciprocally). Fusing the preposition with einander avoids this ambiguity completely.
Why doesn't the subject wir appear again after und?
Just like in English, when two verbs share the same subject and are connected by a coordinating conjunction like und (and), you can drop the second subject. So instead of und wir besiegen den Gegner, you can simply say und besiegen den Gegner.
Why is it den Gegner and not der Gegner?
Gegner (opponent) is a masculine noun. Because the opponent is the direct object receiving the action of the verb besiegen (to defeat), it must take the accusative case. For masculine nouns, this means der changes to den.