Breakdown of Du bist hier immer willkommen.
sein
to be
du
you (informal singular)
hier
here
immer
always
willkommen
welcome (adjective)
Questions & Answers about Du bist hier immer willkommen.
Can I use willkommen to say "you're welcome" when someone says thank you?
No. In German, willkommen is only used when receiving guests, like saying someone is happily received at a place. If someone says "thank you", you should reply with bitte or gern geschehen.
I learned the rule "time before place". Why does this sentence say hier immer (place before time)?
You are right that German usually puts time before place. However, short location words like hier (here) and da (there) can come earlier in the sentence to emphasize the location. Saying Du bist immer hier willkommen is also completely correct!
Why is willkommen at the very end of the sentence?
In a basic German sentence, the main verb (here: bist) must be in the second position. The descriptive adjective (willkommen) gets pushed to the end, after the background details like where (hier) and when (immer).
Why is willkommen written with a lowercase letter?
In this sentence, willkommen is an adjective describing how you are received, so it is lowercase. All German nouns are capitalized, so if you were talking about "the welcome" (as a noun), it would be capitalized as das Willkommen.
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