German Grammar – My mom works for 8 hours 🇩🇪

Meine Mutter____ 8 Stunden

The correct translation for “My mom works for 8 hours” is “Meine Mutter arbeitet 8 Stunden.” The reason “arbeitet” is the correct verb form is because it is the third-person singular present tense conjugation of the verb “arbeiten,” which means “to work” in German.

In German, verbs are conjugated based on the subject of the sentence (the person or thing performing the action). The verb “arbeiten” conjugates in the present tense as follows:

– ich arbeite (I work)
– du arbeitest (you work, singular informal)
– er/sie/es arbeitet (he/she/it works)
– wir arbeiten (we work)
– ihr arbeitet (you work, plural informal)
– sie/Sie arbeiten (they/you work, plural formal or formal singular)

“Meine Mutter” translates to “my mother” and is a third-person singular subject, so the verb must be conjugated in the third-person singular form, which is “arbeitet.”

The word order in a basic German sentence is typically subject-verb-direct object (SVO), the same as in English. In this sentence, “Meine Mutter” is the subject, “arbeitet” is the verb, and “8 Stunden” is a time expression indicating the duration of work.

In English, we explicitly say “for 8 hours” using “for” to indicate duration, but in German, the preposition “für” is not always necessary and is often omitted when the context is clear or when using a time expression. Thus, “Meine Mutter arbeitet 8 Stunden” is sufficient to express the same meaning.

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