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Questions & Answers about In unserer WG trennen wir den Müll, und die Mülltrennung klappt inzwischen ziemlich gut.
What does WG stand for, and how is it used in everyday German?
WG is short for Wohngemeinschaft, meaning a shared apartment/flat where unrelated people live together (often students or young professionals). It’s extremely common in spoken and written German, so you’ll see sentences like in unserer WG all the time.
Why is it in unserer WG (dative), not in unsere WG (accusative)?
The preposition in can take:
- Dative for location (answering “where?”) → in unserer WG = “in our shared flat” (we are already there)
- Accusative for motion/direction (answering “where to?”) → in unsere WG = “into our shared flat” (movement into it)
Here it’s a location statement, so dative is used.
Why is it unserer and not unsere?
Because WG = die Wohngemeinschaft is feminine, and after in (location) we need dative feminine:
- Nominative: unsere WG
- Dative: in unserer WG
So unserer matches feminine dative singular.
What’s happening with the word order in In unserer WG trennen wir den Müll?