The order of adverbials: time, reason, manner, place
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If I could: the Konjunktiv II with würde, hätte and wäreTalking about what is not real: what you would do, would have, would be. With the short…The passive with werden: when what is done matters, not whoBuilding a German passive with its two pieces —werden conjugated and the participle at…The genitive: des, der, and the -s stuck onto the nounSaying whose something is with the fourth case: des Mannes, der Frau, des Kindes, der…Relative clauses: der, die, das again, and the verb at the endHooking a description onto a noun with der, die or das, choosing the form with two…als, wenn or wann: German's three ways of saying «when»Choosing between the three with two questions: is it a QUESTION, direct or indirect?…The infinitive with zu: when it goes in and when it does notAttaching a second verb with zu, and knowing the few cases where it is NOT used: after…The rule, in three lines
When a sentence has several adverbials, German's default order is: first WHEN, then WHY, then HOW and last WHERE. The rule is remembered by its German initials —Temporal, Kausal, Modal, Lokal— and it is not a rigid law: whatever you want to highlight moves to the front, and then the verb stays in second position and the subject goes behind it.
The usual slip. Putting place before time, which is your language's order. In German it is Ich gehe morgen ins Kino. The second mistake shows up when you front something: if the sentence starts with morgen, the subject has to move behind the verb — Morgen gehe ich — and leaving it in front breaks the verb-second rule.
Why it catches you out. English word order is manner-place-time —«I studied hard at home yesterday»— which is almost the REVERSE of German's time-reason-manner-place. So this is one of the few places where English is the least helpful of the four: what feels natural is what German puts last.