Word
Zum Frühstück esse ich ein Rührei mit Brot.
Meaning
For breakfast I eat scrambled eggs with bread.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
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Breakdown of Zum Frühstück esse ich ein Rührei mit Brot.
dem
the; (masculine or neuter, dative)
essen
to eat
das Brot
the bread
ich
I
Questions & Answers about Zum Frühstück esse ich ein Rührei mit Brot.
Why does the sentence start with Zum Frühstück? Does it mean for breakfast?
Yes. Zum Frühstück is the usual German way to say for breakfast or at breakfast in this kind of sentence.
- zum = zu dem
- Frühstück = breakfast
So literally, zum Frühstück is something like at the breakfast meal, but in natural English we usually translate it as for breakfast.
This is a very common fixed expression:
- zum Frühstück = for breakfast
- zum Mittagessen = for lunch
- zum Abendessen = for dinner
German uses zu here, not a direct equivalent of English for.
Why is Frühstück capitalized?
Because Frühstück is a noun, and all nouns are capitalized in German.
So in this sentence:
- Frühstück = noun
- Rührei = noun
- Brot = noun
That is why all three begin with capital letters.
Why is it esse ich and not ich esse?