Questions & Answers about Wir tauchen im Meer.
What does wir mean, and why is it used here?
Wir means we. It is the subject of the sentence, so it tells you who is doing the action.
In Wir tauchen im Meer, wir is the same kind of subject pronoun as I, you, he, she, we, they in English.
What does tauchen mean here?
Tauchen usually means to dive. Depending on context, it can also mean to go diving or to scuba dive.
So Wir tauchen im Meer can mean:
- We are diving in the sea
- We dive in the sea
- We are scuba diving in the sea
The exact English translation depends on context, because German present tense can match both we dive and we are diving.
Why is the verb tauchen not changed? Shouldn’t it have an ending for wir?