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Questions & Answers about Das Kind ist krank.
What is the translation of Das Kind ist krank.?
It means “The child is sick.” The sentence informs that the state of the child is illness.
What do the individual words in the sentence mean?
Das is the neuter definite article meaning “the”.
Kind means “child.”
Ist is the third person singular form of the verb sein, meaning “is.”
Krank is an adjective that means “sick.”
Why is the adjective krank not declined in this sentence?
In German, adjectives used in a predicative position—after linking verbs like sein—do not take any inflected endings. They remain in their base form, so krank stays unmodified as it describes the subject.
Why is the article das used with Kind?
The noun Kind is neuter in German. Therefore, it takes the neuter definite article das, which correctly forms das Kind for “the child.”
How does the word order in this sentence compare to English?
The sentence follows a simple subject-verb-predicate structure: Das Kind (subject) + ist (verb) + krank (predicate adjective). This is quite similar to the English sentence “The child is sick.”