What is zu in german?

A lot of people who are starting to study German are discouraged by the word "zu". It is used as a local pronoun, a temporary pronoun, a causality pronoun, and a conjunction. Zu is the most difficult word in German.

direction towards a place or person is what it indicates.

It's also used to say that it goes to a person.

Tino goes to you or your house.

The person can be a professional.

He went to the doctor.

It's used to say that it's going in the direction of a place.

He is going to the airport.

We go to school.

The place can be abstract.

He goes to work.

"To be at home" is what the expression is meant to mean. It doesn't indicate movement as usual.

We are at home.

"zu" can be translated as "for" or "in", where a period of time is implied. It looks easier with examples.

was kann ich zu Weihnachten kochen? What should I cook for Christmas?

Was Halloween machst du? What are you doing on Halloween?

The Muttertag.

On mother's day.

Silvester. On New Year's Eve.

It was Zu Ostern. In/for Easter.

It's the Mittag. At noon.

"zu" can be translated as "for".

Was it possible that I was knnen?

What can we do to not make mistakes?

"zu" is often used to mean "too much".

Is ist. Its too cold.

er ist die schnell.

He drives too fast.

The meaning of "zu" is closed.

The Fenster ist.

The window is not open.

It was und zu. From time to time.

We're used to the need for a second verb in the infinitive for a sentence to have full meaning.

I will tanzen.

I would like to dance.

The meaning of many other verbs can be completed with a subordinate clause in the infinitive, which is called in German: Inversionktion.

I don't know what to say, was wei.

Es is viel.

There is a lot to do.

Notice how the separable verbs behave.

Ich fange an, mein.

I start to change.

Sometimes "dass" can be replaced by "zu" to avoid repeating the subject, and the construction is more elegant.

I was told to come again in 3 years.

The nominalized version of Ein Daskaufen is written with capital letters and has a neutral gender, it means "to go shopping" in German.

Ich is zum Einkaufen. I'm shopping.

Ich is zum Essen. I will eat.

The structure "ohne...

Ich ist das auto gekauft. I bought the car without thinking about it.

Wei wie lange man.

I don't know how long someone can survive without drinking.

Ich dir wehgetan. I hurt you.

Is meistens in die Schule gegangen. He usually didn't eat breakfast at school.

The subject of both sentences is the same in a subordinate clause. If the subject of the main clause and the subject of the subordinate clause are different, you have to use "damit"

Ich lerne Deutsch ist bei den Firma.

I'm learning German to work in a German company.

If the subject is different with "damit"

In German, infinitives usually end in -en. There are only a few verbs that take a comp -n.

Sometimes the infinitive is found with "zu" and sometimes without. In this article, we explain how to use German infinitive.

The infinitive with "zu" is required for most German verbs in combination with another word.

The verbs that express permission/prohibition are the first ones.

There are 2. The beginning/end of the verbs is expressed after them.

3. After the verbs that say intention or objective.

There are 4. The feeling is expressed after the verbs that express it.

There are 5. After many more words

These combinations are usually impersonal.

There are a lot of combinations. In the following you can find some frequent.