Word
Die Regie schaltet zur Werbung. Währenddessen reparieren wir das Licht.
Meaning
The control room is switching to the commercials. In the meantime, we are repairing the lights.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Die Regie schaltet zur Werbung. Währenddessen reparieren wir das Licht.
wir
we
reparieren
to repair
das Licht
the light
zu
to (direction, + dative)
Questions & Answers about Die Regie schaltet zur Werbung. Währenddessen reparieren wir das Licht.
Why is the verb reparieren right after Währenddessen instead of at the end of the sentence?
Währenddessen is a temporal adverb, not a subordinating conjunction. It takes up the first position in this main clause. Because German requires the conjugated verb to be in the second position (the V2 rule), the verb reparieren comes immediately after it, followed by the subject wir.
Could I just use Während instead of Währenddessen here?
You cannot swap them directly without changing the grammar. Während means 'while' and is a subordinating conjunction that forces the verb to the end of a dependent clause. Währenddessen means 'meanwhile' and is an adverb used in an independent main clause to link back to an event in the previous sentence.
Does Regie mean 'the director' here?
In TV and live broadcasting, die Regie refers to the control room or the production team running the broadcast. While it relates to the word for a film director (Regisseur), in this specific context it implies the technical command center switching the camera feeds.
Why does it say zur Werbung rather than in die Werbung or just zu Werbung?