Breakdown of Er fährt immer mit großer Vorsicht.
groß
big / tall
immer
always
fahren
to drive, to travel
mit
with
die Vorsicht
the caution
Questions & Answers about Er fährt immer mit großer Vorsicht.
Is Vorsicht feminine like the nouns ending in -ung and -heit from this lesson?
Yes, it is die Vorsicht. While it doesn't use the exact suffixes from this lesson, nouns that end in -sicht (which comes from the verb sehen, meaning "to see") are also predictably feminine. Other examples include die Aussicht (the view) and die Rücksicht (consideration).
Why does the adjective end in -er here (großer)?
The preposition mit always requires the dative case. Because Vorsicht is feminine and there is no article (like einer) in front of it, the adjective has to take on the strong dative feminine ending to show the case, which is -er.
Could I put immer at the end of the sentence?
It sounds much more natural right after the verb. In German, adverbs of time (like immer, heute, or oft) typically appear as early as possible in the sentence, well before prepositional phrases like mit großer Vorsicht.
Why isn't the verb conjugated as fahrt without the umlaut?
The verb fahren (to drive) is a strong verb. When conjugated for du or er/sie/es in the present tense, the stem vowel a takes an umlaut and becomes ä, which makes the correct form er fährt.
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