Breakdown of Wir mieten eine Wohnung in der Stadt.
in
in
wir
we
die Stadt
the city
die Wohnung
the apartment
mieten
to rent (as tenant)
Questions & Answers about Wir mieten eine Wohnung in der Stadt.
I always confuse mieten and vermieten. How do I know which one to use here?
mieten means to rent something as a tenant (you are paying the money). If you were the landlord renting the apartment out to someone else, you would use vermieten.
Why is it in der Stadt if Stadt is a feminine noun?
Stadt is feminine (die Stadt), but in is a two-way preposition. Because the sentence describes a fixed location (where the apartment is) rather than movement to a new place, it requires the dative case. The feminine dative form of die is der. If you said in die Stadt, it would mean you are moving 'into the city'.
How can I easily remember the gender of Wohnung?
Any German noun ending in the suffix -ung is always feminine. This means it will always use die in the nominative case and eine for 'a' or 'an'. Because it is the direct object here, it stays eine Wohnung in the accusative case.
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