Breakdown of Ihr Rasierer ist neu, aber heute braucht sie ihn nicht.
sein
to be
neu
new
heute
today
nicht
not
Questions & Answers about Ihr Rasierer ist neu, aber heute braucht sie ihn nicht.
What does Ihr mean here? Is it her or your?
In this sentence, Ihr Rasierer most naturally means her razor.
A useful thing to know is that ihr/Ihr can mean different things in German depending on context:
- ihr = her
- ihr = their
- Ihr = your (formal, when talking to one person or more than one person politely)
Because this word is at the beginning of the sentence, it is capitalized anyway, so the capital I does not by itself prove it is the formal your.
The rest of the sentence helps us: aber heute braucht sie ihn nicht = but today she doesn’t need it. That makes her razor the most likely reading.
Why is Rasierer capitalized?
Because all nouns are capitalized in German.
So:
- der Rasierer = the razor
- die Frau = the woman
- das Haus = the house
This is one of the biggest spelling differences between German and English.
Why is it sie later in the sentence?