Word
Die Studentin arbeitet am Wochenende im Café.
Meaning
The female student works at the café on the weekend.
Part of speech
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Breakdown of Die Studentin arbeitet am Wochenende im Café.
in
in
dem
the; (masculine or neuter, dative)
arbeiten
to work
das Wochenende
the weekend
Questions & Answers about Die Studentin arbeitet am Wochenende im Café.
Why is it Die Studentin and not Der Student?
Because the sentence refers to a female university student. German marks grammatical gender on many nouns:
- der Student = male student
- die Studentin = female student
- plural: die Studenten (male/mixed), die Studentinnen (female only)
Here, die is the nominative singular feminine article agreeing with Studentin.
What case is Die Studentin, and how would it change in other cases?
Die Studentin is nominative (the subject doing the action). For a singular feminine noun like Studentin:
- Nominative: die Studentin (subject)
- Accusative: die Studentin (direct object)
- Dative: der Studentin (indirect object)
- Genitive: der Studentin (possessive)
How is the verb arbeiten conjugated here, and why arbeitet?
The subject is third person singular (she), so present tense is arbeitet.
- ich arbeite
- du arbeitest
- er/sie/es arbeitet
- wir arbeiten
- ihr arbeitet
- sie/Sie arbeiten
German main clauses follow the verb-second (V2) rule, so the finite verb arbeitet sits in the second position.