Pronoun 'wir' (we, nominative)
Pronomen 'wir' (Nominativ)
'wir' (we) is the first-person .
Structure
wir + Verb (1. Person Plural)
wir + verb (1st person plural)
Details
- Part of Speech
- Pronoun
- Word Type
- Personal pronoun
- Register
- Standard
Explanation
wir means "we" - the first-person plural . Use it whenever you and at least one other person do something together.
After wir, the takes the ending -en, which looks exactly like the infinitive:
- Wir lernen zusammen Deutsch. - We are learning German together.
- Wir gehen ins Kino. - We are going to the cinema.
- Wir wohnen in Hamburg. - We live in Hamburg.
This is convenient: for almost every , the wir-form equals the dictionary form (lernen → wir lernen, gehen → wir gehen).
Even irregular verbs follow this in the : wir haben** (we have).
Common mistakes:
- Don't use the ending: it is wir kommen, never wir kommt.
- Keep wir (we, ) apart from uns (us / to us), which is the and form.
- A small but useful exception: sein is the one whose form (sind) is not identical to the (sein).
About Pronoun 'wir' (we, nominative)
'wir' (we) is the first-person .
First-person ; the looks like the (wir spielen, wir gehen).
'wir' ist das Subjektpronomen der 1. Person .
Caution
For most verbs the wir-form looks exactly like the infinitive (kommen → wir kommen). The big exception is 'sein': wir sind.