Laura Bennett 
Just when German is starting to make sense, you’re thrown another curveball: the elements of German sentences can move around … a lot.
We’re not used to this! To our English brains, having words swap places in a sentence drastically changes what is being said (including the option of the final result being utter nonsense).
So, when we try to translate a German sentence word-for-word into English, we can end up with some wonky, confusing sentences. It’s easy to feel lost, fast.
One of the classic mistakes made by German learners is assuming that German grammatically functions the same way English does (<-- nope!!!
One of the areas where the differences are most obvious is with sentence structure, which — in German — can seem pretty funky to a native English speaker.
This guide will give you the necessary bird’s eye view of the components of a German sentence and the order in which you must put them.
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