Word
Das Kind hat Schokolade am Kinn.
Meaning
The child has chocolate on its chin.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Das Kind hat Schokolade am Kinn.
das Kind
the child
haben
to have
die Schokolade
the chocolate
am
on the; (masculine or neuter, dative)
Questions & Answers about Das Kind hat Schokolade am Kinn.
Why is it das Kind and not der Kind or die Kind?
Because Kind is a neuter noun in German, so its nominative singular article is das.
- das Kind = the child
This is grammatical gender, not biological sex. So even if the child is a boy or a girl, the noun itself is still das Kind.
Why is the verb hat used here?
Hat is the 3rd person singular form of haben = to have.
So:
- das Kind hat = the child has
German often uses haben in the same way English does for things like dirt, food, paint, or something stuck on part of the body:
- Er hat Suppe auf dem Hemd.
- Sie hat Sand in den Schuhen.
So Das Kind hat Schokolade am Kinn means the child has chocolate on its chin.
Why is there no article before Schokolade?