Questions & Answers about Sie macht eine Diät.
Why is Sie capitalized here? Does that mean it is the formal you?
Not necessarily. Sie is capitalized because it is the first word of the sentence, and in German the first word is always capitalized.
To know what Sie means, you have to look at the verb:
- sie macht = she does / she is doing
- Sie machen = you do / you are doing (formal)
So in Sie macht eine Diät, Sie means she, not formal you, because the verb is macht, not machen.
Why is the verb macht and not machen?
Because macht is the correct present-tense form of machen for sie meaning she.
The present tense of machen goes like this:
- ich mache
- du machst
- er/sie/es macht
- wir machen
- ihr macht
- sie/Sie machen
Since the subject here is sie = she, the correct form is macht.
Why is it eine Diät?