Breakdown of Kinder, lasst uns morgen im Baumhaus schlafen!
das Kind
the child
wir
we
schlafen
to sleep
morgen
tomorrow
Questions & Answers about Kinder, lasst uns morgen im Baumhaus schlafen!
Why do we use lasst uns here instead of lass uns?
Because the speaker is talking to multiple children. You use lass uns when suggesting something to one person (the du form), but lasst uns when talking to two or more people informally (the ihr form). If you were speaking formally, you would use lassen Sie uns.
Why is it im Baumhaus and not ins Baumhaus?
im is short for in dem, which is the dative case. We use the dative because sleeping (schlafen) describes staying at a fixed location, not a movement towards a destination. If they were moving into the treehouse, you would use the accusative ins (short for in das).
Why does morgen come before im Baumhaus?
German follows a general rule for word order often called Time before Place. Because of this, the time word morgen (tomorrow) naturally comes before the location phrase im Baumhaus (in the treehouse).
Why does schlafen go at the very end of the sentence?
The phrase lasst uns works similarly to a modal verb in terms of sentence structure. The action verb (schlafen) stays in its basic infinitive form and gets pushed to the very end of the clause.