Word
Meine Mitbewohnerin geht mit dem Hund spazieren.
Meaning
My roommate goes for a walk with the dog.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Meine Mitbewohnerin geht mit dem Hund spazieren.
dem
the; (masculine or neuter, dative)
der Hund
the dog
mit
with
mein
my; (masculine or neuter, nominative)
Questions & Answers about Meine Mitbewohnerin geht mit dem Hund spazieren.
Why is Mitbewohnerin capitalized?
In German, all nouns are capitalized regardless of where they appear in the sentence. Mitbewohnerin is a noun (female roommate), so it gets a capital letter.
What does the suffix -in in Mitbewohnerin indicate?
The ending -in marks the feminine form of a noun. Mitbewohner is “male roommate,” and Mitbewohnerin is “female roommate.”
Why is the possessive pronoun meine used instead of mein?
Because Mitbewohnerin is feminine singular in the nominative case, the possessive mein takes the ending -e, becoming meine to match gender and case.
Why is the verb geht in the second position, and not at the end?
German main clauses follow the V2 (verb-second) word order: the finite verb must occupy the second position. Here, geht (3rd person singular of gehen) sits right after the subject.
Why is spazieren at the end of the sentence?