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Illustration of the A1 German word “die Wortstellung”, which translates to “word order”. Dana — blonde bob, red cardigan, lanyard — at a blackboard lifts two big cards to swap them in a row of word cards reading HEUTE ICH GEHE, lips pressed tight, eyebrows up in stern precision.

Wortstellung is part of German nouns A1–B1 and Goethe A1 vocabulary.

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dieWortstellung, -en

word order

/ˈvɔʁtˌʃtɛlʊŋ/

Examples — Wortstellung in a sentence

Die deutsche Wortstellung ist manchmal schwierig.

German word order is sometimes difficult.

Wir lernen heute etwas über die Wortstellung.

Today we are learning something about word order.

How to remember it

WORT-stellung sounds like 'word stew-long.' Imagine trying to untangle a 'stew-long' string of words to get the correct

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