Breakdown of Beide Teams haben gut gespielt.
spielen
to play
gut
good / well
haben
to have
beide
both
das Team
the team (at work)
Questions & Answers about Beide Teams haben gut gespielt.
Why does Teams use an -s plural instead of a traditional German ending like -e or -en?
While your current lesson focuses on Latin and Greek suffixes, Team is an English loanword. However, the principle is similar: foreign words often keep distinct patterns. Modern English loanwords predictably take an -s for their plural (die Teams) and generally take the neuter gender (das Team).
Why is it Beide Teams and not Beiden Teams?
The word beide declines just like a normal adjective. Because there is no article in front of it here, it takes the strong declension ending for the nominative plural, which is -e. If you included the definite article, it would switch to the weak declension: Die beiden Teams.
Could I say Beide Teams spielten gut instead?
Yes, but it changes the tone. Spielten is the simple past (Präteritum), which is primarily used in formal writing, literature, or news reports. In everyday conversation, especially about a recent event, the conversational past (Perfekt) used here—haben gespielt—is overwhelmingly preferred.
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