Breakdown of Ich habe mich beim Sport verletzt.
ich
I
der Sport
the sports
bei
at, near, with
sich
oneself / himself / herself / themselves (reflexive pronoun)
verletzen
to injure
Questions & Answers about Ich habe mich beim Sport verletzt.
Why is there a mich in this sentence?
The verb sich verletzen (to injure oneself) is reflexive in German. You must specify who got injured. Since you injured yourself, you use the accusative reflexive pronoun mich.
Why do we use beim to express doing sport?
The word beim is a contraction of bei and dem. In German, using the preposition bei followed by an activity noun is a very common way to express "while doing" or "during" that activity. So beim Sport literally means "at the sport" but translates naturally to "doing sport."
Why is the noun Sport in the dative case here?
The preposition bei always forces the following noun into the dative case. Because Sport is a masculine noun (der Sport), its article changes to dem, which then merges with bei to form the contraction beim.
Why is verletzt placed at the very end?
This sentence uses the conversational past tense, known as the Perfekt. In this tense, the conjugated helping verb (habe) takes the second position in the sentence, while the past participle (verletzt) gets pushed to the very end.
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