Breakdown of Morgen früh gehe ich zur Apotheke, um neue Medikamente zu kaufen.
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German main clauses follow the “verb-second” (V2) rule. Whenever you start a sentence with anything other than the subject—here Morgen früh—the verb still has to occupy the second slot. The subject moves to third position.
1st position: Morgen früh (time)
2nd position: gehe (verb)
3rd position: ich (subject)
If you began with the subject, you’d say: Ich gehe morgen früh zur Apotheke.
At the very beginning of any sentence, the first word is capitalized regardless of its part of speech. If you move morgen früh into the middle, it becomes lowercase because both are common words:
– morgen (adverb “tomorrow”)
– früh (adverb/adjective “early”)
Example: Ich gehe morgen früh zur Apotheke.
Note: der Morgen (noun “the morning”) is always capitalized, but that’s a different word.
zur is a contraction of zu + der. You use it because Apotheke is feminine and in the dative case (preposition zu always takes dative).
– zu der Apotheke = zur Apotheke
Here Medikamente is a plural direct object (accusative plural). With no article before the adjective, German uses the strong declension pattern. For strong declension in the plural (both nominative and accusative) the ending is -e. Thus:
– neue Medikamente