Word
Meine Schwester übernimmt die Verantwortung, wenn ich krank bin.
Meaning
My sister takes over the responsibility when I am ill.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Meine Schwester übernimmt die Verantwortung, wenn ich krank bin.
sein
to be
ich
I
mein
my
die Schwester
the sister
Questions & Answers about Meine Schwester übernimmt die Verantwortung, wenn ich krank bin.
What role does meine Schwester play in the sentence, and why is it meine and not meiner or meinem?
Meine Schwester is the subject of the sentence – the person doing the action of taking over responsibility.
- The base noun is Schwester (sister), which is feminine.
- In nominative singular (the case for the subject), the possessive mein- takes the ending -e for feminine nouns:
- masculine nominative: mein Bruder
- feminine nominative: meine Schwester
- neuter nominative: mein Kind
Meiner and meinem are other case/genre forms of mein (e.g. dative, genitive), but here we need feminine nominative → meine.
Why is the verb übernimmt and not nimmt or nimmt über?