Breakdown of Der Aufenthalt im Hotel kostet hundert Euro.
in
in
kosten
to cost
das Hotel
the hotel
hundert
a hundred
der Euro
the euro
der Aufenthalt
the stay
Questions & Answers about Der Aufenthalt im Hotel kostet hundert Euro.
Why is it im Hotel (dative) rather than ins Hotel (accusative)?
The preposition in is a two-way preposition. Because the stay (der Aufenthalt) happens entirely at a fixed location, it answers the question 'where?' (wo?). Therefore, it takes the dative case, and in dem contracts to im. You would use the accusative (ins) only if describing movement towards a destination, like walking into the hotel.
Why does the sentence use hundert instead of einhundert for 'a hundred'?
In German, it is completely standard to drop the ein- before hundert and tausend when you mean exactly one hundred or one thousand. While einhundert is grammatically correct and used for emphasis or writing cheques, just hundert is much more common in everyday speech.
Why is the word Euro singular here even though there are a hundred of them?
Is the word der Aufenthalt only used for staying in hotels?
No, it refers to any temporary stay, residence, or stopover. You will often hear it during travel, such as the duration a train waits at a platform or a layover during a flight. It comes from the separable verb sich aufhalten, which means to stay or linger somewhere.
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