Breakdown of Das Baby krabbelt im Wohnzimmer herum.
das Wohnzimmer
the living room
im
in the; (masculine or neuter)
das Baby
the baby
herumkrabbeln
to crawl around
Questions & Answers about Das Baby krabbelt im Wohnzimmer herum.
Why is it das Baby and not der Baby or die Baby?
Because Baby is a neuter noun in German, so it takes the article das.
- das Baby = the baby
This is about grammatical gender, not biological sex. Even if the baby is a boy or a girl, the noun Baby still uses das.
A very common point for English speakers: German noun gender often does not match natural gender.
Why is the verb krabbelt?
Krabbelt is the 3rd person singular form of the verb krabbeln.
The subject is das Baby, which is grammatically it, so German uses the same verb form it would use with er/sie/es:
- ich krabble
- du krabbelst
- er/sie/es krabbelt
- wir krabbeln
- ihr krabbelt
- sie/Sie krabbeln
So:
- Das Baby krabbelt = The baby crawls / is crawling
What exactly does krabbeln mean?