Breakdown of In der Küche brauchen wir Strom.
in
in
wir
we
brauchen
to need
die Küche
the kitchen
der Strom
the electricity
Questions & Answers about In der Küche brauchen wir Strom.
Why is it der Küche if the word for kitchen is feminine (die Küche)?
The preposition in is a two-way preposition. When you use it to describe a fixed location (answering where?), it requires the dative case. Since Küche is feminine, its article changes from die to der in the dative case.
Why are the verb and subject swapped as brauchen wir instead of wir brauchen?
This happens because of the German verb-second rule. The phrase In der Küche takes up the entire first position in the sentence. The verb brauchen must stay in the second position, so the subject wir has to move right after it.
Why isn't there an article before Strom?
Just like in English when we say we need electricity, German drops the article for uncountable nouns when you are talking about them in a general, unspecified way.
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