Word
Jede Bewegung ist anmutig und zeigt Eleganz.
Meaning
Every movement is graceful and shows elegance.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Jede Bewegung ist anmutig und zeigt Eleganz.
sein
to be
und
and
zeigen
to show
jeder
everyone / each
Questions & Answers about Jede Bewegung ist anmutig und zeigt Eleganz.
How could we connect this to a previous negative statement using this lesson's vocabulary word, nichtsdestotrotz?
If the previous sentence was "The dancer was exhausted" (Der Tänzer war erschöpft), you could start this sentence with Nichtsdestotrotz ist jede Bewegung anmutig... (Nevertheless, every movement is graceful). Notice that nichtsdestotrotz takes position 1, pushing the conjugated verb ist to position 2, right before the subject jede Bewegung.
The adjective anmutig translates to "graceful". What is its root noun, and how does it compare to a word like graziös?
The root is die Anmut, which means grace or charm. While graziös is also used for physical gracefulness, anmutig feels a bit more poetic and native to German, often implying a natural, charming beauty alongside physical grace.
We see an ending on Jede, but anmutig has no adjective ending. Why is that?
This is a good refresher on a core rule: anmutig is a predicate adjective here, meaning it comes after a linking verb (ist) to describe the subject. In German, predicate adjectives never take endings. Jede takes an -e because it precedes and determines the feminine noun Bewegung.
Why isn't there a subject pronoun in the second half of the sentence, like "...und sie zeigt Eleganz"?