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German often uses the construction jemand hat Premiere (literally: someone has a premiere) as an idiomatic way to say that this person’s new show is being performed for the first time.
You can say Die Premiere ist morgen (The premiere is tomorrow), but:
- Morgen hat meine Freundin Premiere … focuses on the person (your friend) and what is happening to her.
- Morgen ist die Premiere … focuses more on the event itself (the premiere) and then possibly adds meiner Freundin with von or genitiv:
- Morgen ist die Premiere meiner Freundin.
Both are correct; the original is just a very natural, actor‑theatre style way to speak: actors, directors etc. very often say Ich habe morgen Premiere.
German is a verb-second (V2) language in main clauses: the conjugated verb must be in position 2, no matter what comes first.
In Morgen hat meine Freundin Premiere …:
- Morgen = element in position 1 (time)
- hat = conjugated verb in position 2
- meine Freundin = subject
- Premiere mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück im Theater = rest of the sentence
You could also say:
- Meine Freundin hat morgen Premiere …
- Im Theater hat meine Freundin morgen Premiere …
In all these versions, the verb stays second; what changes is which part is put in the first position for emphasis.
Yes, the adverb morgen (meaning tomorrow) is normally written with a lowercase m.
In this sentence, it is capitalized only because it is the first word of the sentence. In German, the first word of a sentence is always capitalized, regardless of its normal spelling.
So:
- In the middle of a sentence: Wir sehen uns morgen.
- At the beginning: Morgen sehen wir uns.
Both have the same word morgen, just with different capitalization rules.
Freundin can mean both:
- girlfriend (romantic partner)
- female friend (non-romantic)
What people understand depends entirely on context and on how you talk about this person elsewhere. Often, in everyday conversation:
- meine Freundin is usually taken as my girlfriend.
- If you want to make it clear it’s just a friend, people may say:
- eine Freundin von mir (a female friend of mine)
- meine gute Freundin (my good [female] friend, still ambiguous but a bit less “partner-like” in some contexts)
In this isolated sentence, without context, many native speakers would first think of girlfriend, especially because it’s about theatre, premieres, etc., which sounds like talking about a partner with pride.
In the expression jemand hat Premiere, Premiere is used without an article; it functions almost like a fixed phrase.
Compare:
- Meine Freundin hat morgen Premiere.
= She has her premiere tomorrow (the event that is relevant for her). - Meine Freundin hat morgen eine Premiere.
= Grammatically correct, but feels more like She has some premiere tomorrow (a bit more indefinite, less idiomatic). - Die Premiere ist morgen.
= The premiere (as an event) is tomorrow.
So jemand hat Premiere is a set, idiomatic pattern. Adding eine is not usually wrong, but it can sound less natural in this exact formula.
The phrase mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück is in the dative case because of the preposition mit, which always takes dative.
- Stück is neuter: das Stück
- Dative singular neuter article/pronoun: dem / ihrem
Breakdown:
- mit → requires dative
- ihr (her) → dative neuter singular = ihrem
- neu → adjective before a neuter dative noun with a possessive: ending -en → neuen
- aufregend → same pattern, another adjective: aufregenden
- Stück → noun (neuter)
So the fully correct dative phrase is: mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück.
“mit ihre neu aufregend Stück” has several problems:
- ihre = nominative/accusative feminine plural, wrong case + wrong gender
- neu/aufregend need endings in this position
- Word form Stück is correct, but the words before it must agree properly
neuen and aufregenden are two adjectives that both describe the same noun Stück:
- neues Stück = new play
- aufregendes Stück = exciting play
When you have a list of coordinating adjectives (adjectives of the same rank), German may use a comma:
- ihr neues, aufregendes Stück
You can usually test it by trying und:
- ihr neues und aufregendes Stück → makes sense → they are coordinative.
Current spelling rules: In such cases, the comma is optional. Many writers omit it:
- mit ihrem neuen aufregenden Stück (also correct)
Using it makes the separation between the two qualities a bit clearer, but it is not strictly required here.
Stück (meaning play, piece in a theatre context) is neuter: das Stück.
You can see this indirectly from the phrase mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück:
- ihrem = dative masculine or neuter singular
- Given that Stück is not masculine in this meaning (we know from vocabulary that der Stück does not exist), it must be neuter.
Vocabulary-wise:
- das Stück – a play, piece (of music, of theatre, etc.)
- Plural: die Stücke
The choice of preposition + case depends on whether you talk about location (where?) or direction (to where?).
- im Theater = in dem Theater (dative) → answers Wo? (Where is it happening?)
→ The premiere takes place in the theatre. - ins Theater = in das Theater (accusative) → answers Wohin? (Where to?)
→ You are going into the theatre.
In the sentence, we are talking about the location of the premiere, not movement toward the theatre:
- … Premiere … im Theater. = at the theatre
So dative (im Theater) is correct here.
Yes, that word order is grammatically correct:
- Morgen hat meine Freundin mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück Premiere im Theater.
German allows some flexibility in the order of the “middle field” (elements between the conjugated verb and the end of the sentence). Moving mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück earlier slightly changes the rhythm and emphasis, but not the basic meaning.
Rough emphasis:
- Morgen hat meine Freundin Premiere mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück im Theater.
→ Focus a bit more on having a premiere, then specify with what and where. - Morgen hat meine Freundin mit ihrem neuen, aufregenden Stück Premiere im Theater.
→ Slightly more emphasis first on the piece, then on the fact it’s a premiere.
Both are natural; the original version is perhaps a bit more common, but your variant is fine.
Yes, that sentence is also correct:
- Morgen ist die Premiere meiner Freundin mit ihrem neuen Stück im Theater.
Differences in nuance:
- Morgen hat meine Freundin Premiere …
→ Focus on your friend as the one “having a premiere”. - Morgen ist die Premiere meiner Freundin …
→ Focus on the event “premiere” as something that exists and is scheduled for tomorrow.
Both mean nearly the same thing in practice, but the perspective is slightly different. The “hat Premiere” version is very typical for people in theatre when talking about their own show.
Different prepositions express different relationships:
- mit ihrem neuen Stück
→ literally with her new play: it’s the “instrument” or “accompaniment” of the premiere. She is premiering with that play. - an ihrem neuen Stück
→ would normally mean on her new piece, e.g. Sie arbeitet an ihrem neuen Stück (She is working on her new play). - auf ihrem neuen Stück
→ would sound like on top of her new piece (physically on it), which makes no sense here.
So for saying that the premiere is of / with that work, German uses mit:
- Premiere mit ihrem neuen Stück
= premiere with her new piece (it is the work being premiered).