Dieses Brot ist beliebt.

to be

Breakdown of Dieses Brot ist beliebt.

• das Brot: the bread
• dieses: this
• beliebt: popular

Questions & Answers about Dieses Brot ist beliebt.

What does Dieses mean in this sentence?

Dieses is the neuter nominative form of the demonstrative determiner dieser (“this”). It points to a specific item—in this case, Brot (“bread”). You could translate Dieses Brot as “this bread.”

Why is Brot capitalized?

In German, all nouns are capitalized, no matter where they appear in the sentence. Brot is a noun (“bread”), so it gets an initial capital letter.

What gender, number, and case is Dieses Brot?

• Gender: neuter (das Brot)
• Number: singular
• Case: nominative (it’s the subject of ist)
  That’s why dieses takes the neuter nominative ending -es.

Why is beliebt not inflected?

Here, beliebt is used predicatively (after a form of sein). Predicative adjectives in German remain in their base form; they do not take adjective endings. So, you say ist beliebt, not ist beliebter or ist beliebtesten.

Could you add an adverb to modify beliebt, and where would it go?