"Sie ist zur Schule gegangen."
Translation:She has gone to school.
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why "ist" and not "hat" because "she 'is' gone to school sounds weird"
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I think it's like French and Italian. Verbs of motion are conjugated with etre (French) essere (Italian) so ... sein (German)?
I did the same. I thought, "It must be 'zur', since is 'die Schüle'. But isn't this anwering a 'wohin' question? Am I crazy? Do I really know German? Well, whatever, it will be zu".
Zu is überhaupt always Dative (mit nach bei seit von zu aus), so it has nothing to do with wohin-questions, so it has to be either zur or zu der Schule. It's just the sound that's unclear here.
Why is "She is gone to the school" wrong? "She's" is a contraction of "She is". Both answers should be acceptable.
"She is gone to the school" is not correct in English, except in a highly archaic and unnatural phrasing.
I think "she's" is used as a contraction of "she has" here. But regardless, I agree that "She is gone to school" should be correct.
"is" is used with present or future tense, not past tense. "She's" can be a contraction for "she is" or "She has" you need past tense for this translation.
In hiberno-english is seems equally correct to me,
"Is she gone to school already?" "She is, yeah".
because in English the rules for use of 'the' are more complicated. You just don't need to use 'to', as they said above, it's idiomatic.
Typo "you just don't need to use "the", we still use "to". "She has gone to school."
I know this is old, going is present tense - the verb is being actively performed. gegangen is past tense.
I said "She has went to school," rather than gone. I looked up the difference in English - interestingly I suppose the equivalent to "went" in German would be "ging." The past participle for have insists on using gone in English. TIL about my own language.
so would this be in the context of "She has gone to school, and is now there" or could it refer to "In the past, she went to school, but has now graduated"?