Breakdown of Meine Adresse und meine Nummer sind neu.
sein
to be
und
and
neu
new
mein
my
die Adresse
the address
die Nummer
the number (on a form, a house, a phone)
Questions & Answers about Meine Adresse und meine Nummer sind neu.
Why does the sentence use meine twice instead of mein?
Both Adresse and Nummer are feminine nouns. In the nominative case (when they are the subject of the sentence), the word for "my" before a feminine noun is meine. A helpful hint: many German nouns ending in -e are feminine!
Since the nouns are feminine and there are two of them, why doesn't the adjective neu get an ending like neue?
In German, adjectives only get endings (like -e or -en) when they come directly before a noun, as in meine neue Adresse. When an adjective describes a noun but comes after a verb like sind (are), it is called a predicative adjective. Predicative adjectives never take endings, so it stays as the basic dictionary form neu.
Why do we use the plural verb sind (are) here?
The subject of this sentence is made up of two separate things: Meine Adresse and meine Nummer. When you connect two singular nouns with und (and), they form a plural subject ("they"). Therefore, you must use the plural verb form sind.
The words Adresse and Nummer look a lot like English. Are there any spelling traps to watch out for?
Yes! Notice that Adresse only has one "d" but a double "s", which is different from the English "address" (double "d", double "s"). Similarly, Nummer uses a double "m", whereas the English "number" uses "mb". Paying attention to these small differences will help your written German.
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