willing nach einer Regel gehen to follow a rule wenn man nach seiner Aussage gehen kann (= urteilen) if his statement is anything to go by man darf nicht nur nach dem Äußeren gehen (= urteilen) you shouldn’t judge or go just by appearances ♦ gehen + über Ja, das stimmt, die Regeln machen erst Sinn, wenn sie einem schon fast zu den Ohren rauskommen Danke schön für deinen Kommentar!I really appreciated you to share the indepth explanation of how to seperate in, auf, an, zu, and nach. nach Außen / nach außen.

home you made a small mistake at the “replacing in with zu section”:– Ich fahre zum in das Restaurant.

( oder ) ich gehe zu der bank / zu der schule/zu dem kino/zum park/ zum park/zum bahnhof.Hallo Hemanth, my pleasure. Blog Press Information. You can’t do it with the dative prepositions nach or zu as they’re always dative, no matter what:I wonder what you do to always think of the right preposition, especially when speaking?

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I know a lot of people think you should go for in case you get lost along the lines, but German offers a more universal preposition.I’ll tell you further down which one it is (spoiler: it’s The crucial rule when it comes to saying where you’re going is as follows:Of course, Germans don’t run around telling themselves, I’m going to say it this way because my goal of action is this or that, but they do it subconsciously.Keeping this in mind, let’s start with the preposition  looks like the English ‘in’ and is sometimes used in similar contexts ( features where in English you would say TO when it comes to going somewhere.Remember when I told you about the German love for goal-oriented thinking? German is a difficult language to learn, speak and understand. Just had a doubt though: why is it ‘in die Kneipe’ and ‘an die Bar’? will Thank you for pointing this out, glad you told us about it!I’m very glad to have found this website! Macht weiter so! When I asked for the translation of the sentence : “I’ve come to the concert”, the German, which I was talking with, responded me : “Ich habe zum Konzert gegangen”. Please write more of these amazing articles. Do you have any tricks that you would like to share? If you can’t decide, nach will be your best bet as it can be used instead of bis in this context. Thank you!Hallo Jess, so glad you find it helpful! Ich schreibe dir eine Email Danke für deinen Kommentar!Hallo Udeep, So glad you find the article helpful. I’m from Lima, Peru, and always kept this doubt in mind. Großen Anteil daran, dass der Pole nach Dortmund wechselte, hatte sein früherer und heutiger Trainer Lucien Favre.

Copyright © by HarperCollins Publishers. )Last but not least, let’s talk about two culprits that you want to memorise as they are. If it doesn’t matter that you’re walking into it, ‘zu’ will be as good as ‘in’. "zu" bei personen oder "punktuellen" örtlichkeiten: heute gehen wir ZUM bahnof, fahren NACH köln, gehen vom dortigen bahnhof ZUM dom und danach ZU tante elfriede, mit der wir gemeinsam NACH amerika fliegen.

11 Kommentare - Meistens verwechsle ich die Präpositionen wie in, ins, nach, zu ... Ich gehe nach Hause. Because we expect to be sitting inside, Germans use the preposition already to say that they are going there.

Ihr seid aufgerufen, nach Innen zu gehen und Euch auf Eure innere Weisheit und Wahrheit zu verlassen.

It’s just another use case. "Wenn der Berg nicht zu Mohammed geht, dann geht Mohammed zum Berge" (If the mountain does not go to Muhammad, then Muhammad goes to the mountain) 1 Meaning of "gehen" in German 2 Grammar of "gehen" In Spanish (just like in English) you just use “in” (en) and “at” (a).Glad you find the article helpful Cristina. Prepositions in German is a hard topic to understand and I must say your article is so well-structured that it makes everything clear.

In die Sammlung »Beliebte Fehler« nehmen wir falsche Schreibweisen auf, die sich besonderer »Beliebtheit« erfreuen, die also besonders häufig zu beobachten sind. Also called "irregular strong," these verbs have a vowel change in the simple past and a past participle ending in -en.. From Middle High German gān, gēn, from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).

When you say Ich fahre nach Hamburg then Hamburg is your only destination, you’re just going to Hamburg. Please don’t worry about it any longer because I’m going to tell you what it means. Hope it helps Danke für deinen Kommentar!Amazing! Die Videostucken sind super auch.Super!

prepare Thank you for commenting!Anja, I am a bit confused. Ich gehe in die Rente. It’s probably best to use “zu” first yourself and when you come across other prepositions (auf, in, an, etc), have a think why someone used them in that particular instance (were they going to end up on, in, between, on the side of something, etc?) Ich gehe IN die Kneipe.

is exclusively used to express you’re going to someone’s house, or to a company, and the company is specified by just its name:You should also know about one important thing, a mistake a lot of German learners make.Going to someone’s house (don’t make this mistake! But I’m with you, you can certainly use ‘die Bar’ instead of ‘die Kneipe’. ThoughtCo uses cookies to provide you with a great user experience. Most of us know when we have to say sorry, but when we’re not speaking our own language, it’s important to know how to do it. Wir gehen zu Restaurant.

Die Mütter gehen an den Strand./Die Mütter gehen zum Strand.Lass uns ans Fenster gehen./Lass uns zum Fenster gehen.